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nm THE DAILY BRITIEH. WHIG, TVESD. Av. wanen 22, 010. THE LARGEST RAILWAY SHOPS IN CANADA LOCATED AT WINNIPEG Government Building Big at Winnipeg | * ---Progressive Policy Gives New Transcontinental . Largest Railway Shops in Canadaat Chief Divisional nt---Splendid Structures Well Under, Way and' Will Be Ready For Point--- Occupation Within the Year "stom 3 IN SENTENCES LargesttRailway Shops in Canada. Thirteen Separate Buildings. Eighteeh Departmeyts. Eight 'Buildings of" Steel Construs- tion. crete. 5,000 Tons of Stes) Required. Largest Cénetruntio Steslf Contract / in Canada in 0. . Winnipeg om iad Contract, Shops Will'Emgploy 3,000 Men. Bmplaies, i Families Will Makey} | Shops Will: Be Ready. for Work by! January, 1911. Five Buildings of Reinforced: Con-gl] 4! and a halt dollars, and Grand facilities | Tropk" Patific terminal {are being worked out in a gener-! {ally large and fine way--quite in | projéet and the character of the city in which thesé landmarks of progress are located. Shops Will Employ an Army. | alone will employ a small army of | men--as many as 5,000 or 6,000 { when they are in full operation. {As stated, there will be thirteen buildizigs in all, and these build- lings will house the various de- partments and shops. The main building ~= the framework for The Grand Trunk! Pacific rail- which is pearly all in place--is to be' 880 feet long, 180 feet wide, || keeping with the magnitude of the | The Grand Trunk Pacifie shops | : Side View of Erecting Shop, With First Girder Placed for ar ner. Steel, stone, crete are the . | brick and eon- | materials used, and | construction work is being done | Interior View of' Middle | | | ! i 'road shops--now in process of con- struction at Winpipeg--will be ithe largess 'shops in Can- and 47 feet high. In this immense structure will be the loco- motive, boiler and tank shops. of 'the Locomtive Shop. | upon strictly scientific lines and according to the latest and best plans for such operations. : North of Locomotive 8hope--Concrete Foundation for Columns for the Frog and Track Shop--Car of Steel Ready to Unibad. | ada. Shops and grounds . will cover three hundred acres, and there will be seventeen acres of ifloqr. space. in the thirteen several buildings that ;will make up the plant. Details 'arising out of this {general statement make up an in-| jteresting story of progress made in this, one of the largest trauvs- jportation systems in the world-- jan the Grand Trunk Pacific, with | Locomotive 'its many branches by land, and 'lake and ocean "steamship lines; {will be when completed. The great § ¢ that are now {being built 'at course, but a id Grand Trunk Pacifle development in that city. Winnipeg is the chief divisional point on the new transcontinental road, west of Quebec, and as such has been made very much a part ha the system--has had a big in all the plans of the new BL Pacific of- i buildings in Winnipeg, a new block, in Winnipeg-- ih tho Salt + for office pur- 1 already too considerable ! ik = Sirendy space that as taken for { porary guarters about a year 'ad a half ago. There is a new Station that cost a million rash of iy tron block, twelve storeys | { Other buildings will be smaller than the main structure, but each will: be 'ample for the first de- mands to be made, upon it, and the whole plan has been laid out with a view to such increased size and facilities as the road's growth may maké necessary. Dimensions of the principal départmental shops are as fo dawg.» , and Erecting 8 2 foot, 47 feet high. Defies "Tank Sho S180 by 210 feet, 47 on. . St nd Se 40 by 220 feet, bey B rap Shop, y Eo 00 by 260 feat, 47 #1. high, oundry 130 by 200 feet, 47 rover Helos 110 by 150 feet, 49 feet Ee Rie. 1 by, 8 tm 2 ve Me . by 00 Tent, 43 fo feet Nag Si Fiowse To by 68 foo, 15. fou Nigh. pe 92 by 138 Engle Houss 170 foo radius, 1088 fot Lik&all or work done by the Grand Trunk Pacific in making the second great trunscontinenial railway: acrass Canada, the Win- nipeg shops are being built i in the solid man. 'Local Firm Got Contract. | A fact contributory to securing | the best possible results in ma-| i20 Ton Travelling Eight Tons Each. terial and Workmanship. | lies in the awarding of the contract for building the Grand Trunk Pacific shops to a Winnipeg firm, the] Manitoba Iron & Bridge Works. | This firm has the biggest and best | plant for doing work of the kind | ! i T. R. DEACON, C. E. i | President and General Manager Mani- | toba Bridge & Iron Works, Winnipsy. that is involved Crane--Line ot Columns That Weigh the | To- of | building west of matter in shops, in the new ronto railway and * » EE ---"YS °° o a TRF 2) gf b ; construction in Canada | year 1909. | for the use of 5,000 tons of steel. | for the This contract The plans, drawings: and "PAGE NINE. ) aE & cidifiTérerios er x00 calls | with a attached that is | feet long by 50 feet wide. 1 wardly, the locomotive house { building details all have been | being thoroughly prepared to & { prepared in the i department of the. Manitoba Bridge Works, under the direc- 'tion of Chief Engineer Hugh Me- Kay. All of the structural steel] for the contract is fabricated and | paintc.) at the city shops of thel ! constructing firm--enlarged last {year by the addition of $200,000 worth of new buildings and ma- chinery--and is taken to the | shops' site by the trainload. At the point of construction, the work of putting the steel frame- work in place of Mr. 7T.P F much experie: in work. ( Work Pushed During Winter. Conerete foundations and piers were put in place last fall, and were, therefore, in readiness for the steel superstructure that has been put up this winter. Work on this part of the big shops was begun January 6th, and in 'the two months that followed no less than 2,500 tons of steel was erect: ed and riveted in place for the brick, stond<and cement filling which will follow the steel frame- work. Already the great shops are | taking on a look of nedr-comple- engineering | a man. of of arley, this line is under direction' its work as a well-equipped strue- | ture Sor the housing of locomo- | tives, while off duty. Solidity of construction, an admirably adapt- ; ed system of drainage, and gen- erally good and . convenient are | rangement of the building for ite work, mark the making of the Grand Trunk Pacific roundhouse, a structure which has 25 stalls now, and may be enlarged te forty when need demands. When the plant is ready for work it will he not only a thor. oughly equipped part of a gread raitroad system, but it means the building of a city around the Grand Trunk Pacific shops. AS the start there will bg from 2,000 to 3.000 men employed at the big shops.@ With their families, the shop employees will make up & population of 6,000 at least, and the number is sure to be increased rapidly. Growth and expansion of railroads in Western Canada is a thing of speedy development and reasonable expectation will give the new town that is to spring up around the Grand Trunk Pacifie shops, a population of from 10. 1000 to 15,000 within theg next three years. Plans have been made for this. A townsite has Looking Down 800 Feet of Locomotive Shops. | building 4 the Grand "Trunk Pacific shops -- adds to excellence | tion. ng a -- "Carioad © of Fabricated Columns of | having been acknowled of being awarded what was the | SN most substdbtially. Huge piles of | ling derricks busily worked by skilled mechanics ; teams of horses leoming with loads of steel from | | the near-by ears, and going away | { for more material to keep the| { builders supplied; forges for] | heating rivets, and the rattling {tattoo of the riveting hammer] {driven by compressed air, all tell {the story of work that #& being] pushed to the full of reasonable | {haste and diligent purpose. Storehouses, blacksmith shops, { boarding houses, and such other | temporary structures as the na- 'ture of the work: demands, have { been erected, and are in use by i the workmen who are engaged in | building the big shops. The {scene is full of business, and the { intention to have the shops ready { for occupation by next December | seems likely to be forestalled by ithe speed with which the work is {being pushed along. | Roundhouse Nearly Completed Qutwardly the big roundhouse is practically finished. Workmen {are putting the last touches to the { root, and the structure 3 completed sppearance. This building. - » Long avenues of steel posts, | of | girders and roofwork stretch into | have been sold, very largely. | *quipment, a sittin local | pride i in nthe dis distance, and show the limits | far, ad 7 TE been laid out, an hundreds of lots thus purposes. for speculative ight Tons Each, as " Arrived From Shop. ged worthy | of the shops. that soon are to be, | Solid business ventures have been {entered upon, however, aud there [argent Single contraet for steel | bricks, carloads of steel, travel-|are already a number of houses {and stores put up in Transcona ~-the name given the new town Will Have Good Railway Con. 2 nections. ® Those who live in Transcona will be favored with excelient transportation facilities to thse ieentre of Winnipeg. about four miles distant. The shops are {cated a short half mile from the main line of the GT. ¥. railway and there also will be a street car service as soon as the shops are far enough advanced to warrant extending the line from St. Boni. face. Artesian wells afford an {excellent water supply, and the {Red river an effective system of drainage. i 1 lo- The corporation officials acted wits good engineering . taste in jocatidg their shops, and also have accommo. dated themselves to the situation with excellent judgment by oing far enopgh from the centre of Winnipeg to ensure plenty of room for expansion and freedom from objeclionabienass to the ie of a densley populated city At the same time, the Grand Trunk Pacifico shops are sufficiently near te Wipnipeg to afford the 'Transcons all the advaniages to . beg had residence within sasy reach of a args town, and It also will bs pry Jshit Tog thoes Wha chase to ve 2 asd. work at he shops