The Mechanical Equipment of the New South Station, Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mechanical Equipment of the New South Station, Boston, MassThe terminal station of a railway system comprises essentially the approaches, yards, and side tracks, the train shed with its stub tracks, the head house - usually in the form of an open quadrangle around three sides of the train shed - and the engineering ap pliances which are required to serve the property and its tenants. It IS primarily of these engineering appliances In connection with the Boston South Station that this article treats. It has been thought proper to have the various. Sections described by those who principally designed them, or who have been intimately con nected with the work and who should therefore be regarded more as having created this mechanical engineering plant than as merely assisting the contributor in the preparation of this paper.The requirements being somewhat miscellaneous and not so easily identified as those of the large structures such as train shed and head house, were left somewhat longer undetermined than the former. The trustees realizing, from long personal experience, the ditfi culties surrounding the division of such work among many con tractors, sought for a concern who should be both engineers and contractors and who had facilities for expeditiously designing and executing all of the work required, notwithstanding it was of such a nature as would ordinarily be much subdivided.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.