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.BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS.

paving are similar to the same class of work in the roundhouse at the West Philadelphia shops, de-scribed above.

The cost of the eighteen stalls, as per figures kindly furnished by Mr. Wm. H. Brown, was$21,750, exclusive of the retaining-wall to hold up the street at the back of the house, and exclusive

Fig. 308.—Cross-section.

Fig. 309.— Ground-plan.

of turn-table. The wrought-iron turn-table cost about $1500,50 that the entire structure, exclusiveof the special retaining-wall, cost $23,250, or, on an average, $1292 per stall.

Engme-house at Mt. Pleasant function , Jersey City . N. /., Pennsylvania Railroad .—The engine-house of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mt. Pleasant Junction, jersey City , N. J. , shown in Figs. 308