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Show New 40,000 Turntable Now Done for U. P. The new turntable was put in service ser-vice on December 5th. The table, with concrete foundations was installed in-stalled at si cost of about $40,00u. On account o the table being too long to ship it wais sent here knocked knock-ed down and was assembled here. The table weighs m the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 125 tons and is driven by electricity. The foundation for tno table required the services of a gang of about twenty men for two mouths, 5000 sacks of cement being used in its construction. In addition to the concrete there were forty piles driven to support the center foundation. These pilea are of straight-grain pine and are thirty-five and forty feet in length. The first engine put over the new turntable was engine 273 2. General Foreman Morley ran the engine on and riding with him on the table's first trip were Mary Roper and Jua-nita Jua-nita Miller. The new table, being a little ovei 100 feet in length, will turn the largest engines in use on the Union Pacific and therefore work will be done at Milford on engines now that could sot be done before, on aecounc of not being able to get the "big engines en-gines in the round house. While the turntable was out. Mr. Morley took advantage of tlhe opportunity mid had the round house whitewasheu and painted, and it is now just as clean as it is posisble to make it. It required 150 sacks of lime to whitewash the roundhouse. In addition addi-tion to the new turntable the company com-pany has ordered several thousand dollars worth of new mcchinery for the machine shop, all of which goeo to make a more .solid foundation for Milford, for the Union Pacific shopj mean much to this city. ) |