The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-16
|22 BUILDINGS R,SOUTHERN E IN BIRMINGHAM Railroad Announces Main Details Of Plant To
 Cost Millions TO. WORK 1,2oO MECHANICS AS SOON AS COMPLETED Finley Property Is Extended. Crews Are At Work On
 Foundations Now

Erection of mammoth locomotive plant, to cost several millionN dollars, has been begun at its Finley yards; the Southern railway system announced Friday. The plant, which will employ more than 1,20O Birmingham mechanics, will be one of the largest in the h i; it will be completed by Octobs2 &
 The new shops will be tween the present roundhQo ~ at Finley and Emily sx1 s2- erty which the HouthexY for years. It will be b@N 1t R: Robinson company c sed, of New York city, sd general contractors. ,GraA v has been started, it was annos
 The new shop will do all locomotive and car repair work for the Southern Railway company and the Alabama Great Southern railroad in Birming- ham. It will be equipped to handle the largest locomotives and the heaviest steel cars. Work will be done there which now has to be sent to other shops of the Southern outside lof Ala bama as the present facilities are not fitted to handle the heavy locomotives and cars now in service.
 Details of the Soutbern's plans were announced Friday by Lauren Foreman, publicity agent, who came to Birming- ham as the representative of Vice Pres ident H. w. Miller, in charge of the Southern's operating department, under whose direction all arrangements for the construction of the shop have been made. The shop will be built in two distinct units, one for the repair of locomotives and the other for the re- pair of cars. &
 Locomotive Repair Shop
 The locomotive repair shop will be of the tranyerse type and will include the following buildings Erecting shop, S0x568 feet.
 Machine shop, 95x466 feet.
 Boiler shop, 100x2A0 feet.
 Smith shop, 100x260 feet.
 Forge shop, 30xS0 feet.
 F1ue shop, 50xS0- feet.
 Power house, S0x9 feet.
 Storehouse and office, 55x200 feet.
 Paint shop, 24x60 feet.
 Tank (tender) shop, 10Ox15S feet.
 Firing-up shed, 45x100 feet.
 Wash and locker building. 42x12S feet. t.s R
 IWont{.f0uf Ik8ckS The erecting shop will have 24 tracks, running across it's width, and will be served by an electrically operated trans fer table of 250 tons capacity, travelling it's entire length. By means of this motive on. any one df the tracks. in the from any track without disturbing any other track. The erecting shop will also be served by one 150-ton overhead tray cling crane and two 15-ton overhead travelling cranes, each running the full length of the building.
 The machine shop will be served by two 15-ton cranes, running it's full length in 60-foot bay. The remaining B feet of the machine shops width will be divided into two floors. the upper being of the mezzanine order.
 The boiler shop will be served by q 20-ton crane with n 60-foot span and the boiler, smith and flue shops will be served by a 2O-ton crane with 60-foot span, operating out of doors in an S00-foot runway. a
 The cranes will operate from the ma chine shop into the smith shop and from the erecting shop into the boiler shop. The ffne shop will be equipped with electric flue welders and modern flue-handling machinery.
 Car Repair Shop
 The car repair shop will include the following buildings:
 Steel car repair shop, 10Sx59S feet.
 Annex machine shop, 51x156 feet.
 Wheel shop, 55x125 feet.
 Dry lumber shed, 41x240 feet.
 Woodworking mill. 100x243 feet.
 Paint -honse, 25x50 feet.
 Scrap deck, 52x400 feet.
 Reclamation shop, 35x6O feet.
 Wash and locker building; 36x90 feet.
 The steel car shop will include three longitudinal bays. One of these will be served by two 15-ton cranes with
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