Show OGDEN EN TERMINAL f TO BE I Much Work Going on injunction inJunction inJunction tion City Yards Many Bet Betterments Betterments Betterments to Be Installed J The month of September will see se s the completion of many map of the minor yet et Im Important Important Important Improvements In n the local Har liar Harriman riman railroad yards ards The original plans to entirely remodel the tile yards yaros both pas passenger passenger and freight to construct addition additional al buildings for the various departments and equip the same sam with the necessary machinery are being carried out to a nicety Withal it will whit take a long time before all that has been planned for Og Ogden hen den by the Harriman Interests can be beI I completed I Like all great corporations the big 1 moves are made slowly To look over oer the railroad situation today and com corn compare compare pare it with what it was a few years ago the change even ev n at this time wilt will seem seeni remarkable Large Laige forces of men are at work dally daily in all sections of the yards ards and by gradual steps the big network of tracks the many buildings and structures of various kinds necessary for operating a great railroad are not only undergoing I complete changes but are being beng added to toon toon toon on a wide scale cale The large l rge shops of the company compan have been heen Increased the roundhouse has been enlarged a new power plant has been erected new coal chutes have been built and numerous other improvements have been made Many any more are yet to come The largest among those thoe outlined for the tile future are the th new mw car ear shop shops the freight house and the viaduct across Twenty fourth street N Signal Department During the next nett month there will be added to the list of completed improve improvements Improvements I ments a signal maintenance department Oi fice and shops This department will wIlt soon find its home in a brick structure now under course of construe construction construction tion south of the commissary commissar building at atthe a athe the th depot When this building is i finished the signal Ignal engineer en and two dl di division vision Islon signal maintainers will have hac their headquarters there th re The rest of the building will be used J work room i which will wIlt be equipped d with a small amount of machinery to be used in the recharging rr of batteries used along the theline theline line between Green River Wyo and an Sparks Nev New for the operation of the electric signals and for the repairing and overhauling of the many contrivances used U d In connection with the signal de department department department The repair work for this lIlis de department department department has been done at the general shops of the company in this city At the same time another brick building with a commodious attic will be completed This latter structure Is located adjacent to the shops power powerhouse powerhouse powerhouse house and roundhouse and is intended as asan asan asan an office building for the master mechanic and his large larlie force of clerks and amI assist assistants assistants assistants ants The present quarters of the master mechanic will then be turned over to the store department to be used as an office 4 building No longer lon er do the th railway people have to pay pa fabulous us prices s for the water used at this point for now they have a water system of their own with a supply that thatis is more than necessary to cover their needs Water Vater rights were secured In Tay Taylors Ta Taylors lors canyon and from this point through I the city the water is piped to the rail rali rord property pro pert Most lost prominent among the many man Im Improvements improvements 0 that have hae been completed during luring the present season is the power bouse t use ouse located d In the immediate vicinity of the general shops This building like nil all others being erected Is built of brick with cement floors It Is here that all of the air for whatever purpose desired Is furnished from a air com cony compressor compressor This air is used for various pur purposes purposes purposes poses In the shops for hoists and for testing the on the cars In addition to the air compressor there are two McEwan engines con connected connected connected with Westinghouse generators that provide all of the electricity used by b the same corporation in this city How Buildings Are Lighted The Th shops shop offices depot buildings and grounds the yards and even eE n the switch are lighted from this building buildingS S With th the connections made at the present lime me it is only necessary to keep one of the big tIg engines running at a time Look Looking ing log to the future when it becomes than both sarv ar to have hav more electricity engines cn can furnish additional space has been blen left heft to place two additional engines in the same structure The same consid consi consideration ration was given Iven to the big bl boiler room roam which occupies of the power powerhouse powerhouse house houst for all of the machinery in this building is operated by steam steamOn steamOn On in one side of the engine room there is isa isa Isa a gauge au e board Upon this is located the various gauges by which the engineer can an tell at a glance the amount of steam pressure in the boilers the supply of compressed air on hand etc On the op opposite opposite x site side of the room is the big switch switchboard switchboard switchboard i board containing all the different switches i for lor controlling the electricity Here is I also located a number of different kinds I of meters There are Ampere recording meters Ammeters voltage meters as aswell S Swell well as other meters which keep account of the power used by each engine as well as KS the amount of light used In rn this por portion portion tion lion of the building there is also alo located a capacity crane to be used for lifting Helin any an of the heavy hea machinery con with the tilt engines From the powerhouse running funning to all alt points of the Harriman properties proper ies are poles strung upon which are the wires used for transmission of the dee elec I c ri fluid These are all alt painted white whiten and n nt the thc line is declared to be 00 the most mos staple of any ever constructed in this section of the country At the present time additional lights light arc a ar being placed outside the th L lon depot Supplying one of the needs that has been beeb felt elt for a long time a number of these lights are being placed to the east cast of the thet t l ot building or on the side fronting on en ull II avenue This portion of the grounds is traversed by alt all persons pers ms going to and from the depot from front the city and where wherein in the past there has been virtually no light tight at all nil thre th rt will now be bc plenty to towell towell well weil illuminate the entire grounds With all of oC the many changes under underway underway the trains way wa the work of handling through h the I yards goes on without interruption As 8 an indication of the amount of oe business handled at this point by bv the th Harriman lines alone It is said that during durin the past month more than AO freight cars ears were handled daily and the business is ever increasing |