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Show TURNTABLE FOR THE BIG LOCOMOTIVES Within a few days the installation of the great turntable at Summit, made necessary by the advent of the new "class 4"000 locomotives, will have been completed by the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company. The pit for the great table has been completed, and the truss that will support the weight of the monster locomotives has arrived. The pit Is more than 100 feet in diameter. diam-eter. The table proper Is 98 feet long, and that leaves only two feet clearance clear-ance at each end when one of the two locomotives now In U3e is occupying it. The entire table has a diameter of about 125 feet. ! Tho truss for the turntable was j brought across the continent on two specially built cars, t looks like a bridge already set up. Owing to the cold nights at tho Summit the concrete con-crete work of the table has been slow to dry, hut it now Is about ready for the weight it is to support. |