The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-17

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side of the pier being capable of snp-
plying coal to a vessel on either side
ofFthe pier and at the hatch level.
On each side Of the towers there
will be a boom supporting lowera-
tor. which will be placed at the end
tof the shuttle ram and used for low
fefing the coal into the vessels. AZ
present the coal is allowed to fall the
full depth Of the vessel, thirty to forty
fest n ',i sis'''
Il In addition to the four loading tow
ters there will be two trimming tow
sefs, supplied with coal by torty-eight
inch belts from the intermediate stor-
sage bins. The trimming towers will
be located one on each side OF rne
pier, and can be used for trimming
purposes or for supplying bunker coal
while the towers are laoding cargo.
The arrangement described is the
most flexible one In existence The
coal can be handled at any speed de-
sired, and the slower It is handled the
less the breakage. 1t is necessary not
to break gas coal ii order to satisfac-
ftorily serve South American and Med
iterranean ports. The domestic trade
demands lump coal. and this Is an
other reason for preventing break
age. Where run of mine coal is being
handled, the mechanism can be speed
ed, up, as 1t is i1nmaterial whether
or not this coal is broken.
The pier will built not only to
Ehandle the business offered at present.
lbut will be capable Of handling large
increase for great number OF years.
The entire improvement will cost
$lG50o,0o0.
i Enlarged terminal facilities will
soon be placed in operation by the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad in Chi
cago, with the completion OF the new
coach yard, engine house, concrete
store house and other buildings at
Obey street which will take the place
OF the terminal at Empire Slip. The
!. improvements. which will afford the
company more spacious quarters as
we'll as terminals Of latest dess:n,
were necessitated by the new Union
\ station plans Of the Pennsylvania and
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroads in Chicago.
The new facilities Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Chicago terminal railroads
besides serving the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, the parent company.
will be used by three tenant compan-
les. the Pere Marquette, Chicago Great
Western and the ST., Paul and Sault
Ste. Marie railroads.
The coach yard. between Wood and
Lincoln streets, occupies an area of
1874 acres. This yard is being built
on practically the same level as the
elevated tracks, with concrete re-
tanning wall surrounding the proper
ty. At present the yard will have
thirty-five tracks, twenty-eight Of
which are for coach cleaning purposes
three tracks serving the drop pit for
coaches, three tracks to. be used tenn
porarily as freight car repair tracks,
and one coal and material track. The
capacity Of the twenty-eight coach
tracks will be $50 coaches Of seventy
FIVE feet each. This capacity can be
increased to 290 coaches by using the
three repair tracks and adding two
additional tracks in the space which
will be used for material storage at
present. The coach tracks are spaced
fourteen and eighteen feet alternately,
This coach yard will be OF stub end
type,
Acros sthe yard at the end Of the
tracks -is being constructed two
story reinforced concrete storehouse
building COL feet long. This building,
In addition to providing facilities for
the usual coach yard Requirement..
provides for power house which
willyserve both. the coach yard and
the engine terminal; a maintenance
otsway storehonse and a store room
for the motive power department.
This coach yard will be fully equipped
with steam, air, drainage. water, cleo
trical connections and fire lines. An
OIL house will be built, which will
serve both the coach yard and engine
terminal There will be sixteen
feet platform between the storehouse
and the end Of the coach yard tracks.
The engine house site and its apart
ment facilities, which include the
Work will be started at once on the
enew coal pier Of the Baltimore and
, Ohio railroad to be erected in the
Curtis bay terminal at Baltimore, II
being the expectation Of the company
that the enlarged facilities will be
put into operation during the export
season Of 1918. Contracts for the
conveying machinery have been let
and the pier proper viii be contracted
for at an early date.
The new pier will be located 400
feet from the present pier It. will
be 700 feet long and Us feet wide
the bulk head Of which will be so To-
Gated that the pier can be heightened
+ to take care of future business re-
quirements.
The scheme for handling coal a.
this pier is radically different from
any now In use on the Atlantic sea
board. Instead of building high
pier ninety feet above the water, the
present pier will be eight feet above
mean low water. The coal for expor,