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Re: Another article about the West Oak. Diesel Shop demolition
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 10-06-2010 - 12:08
stash Wrote:
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> While on the tour I thought: this would be a
> depressing place to work. Dangerous, cold, damp,
> inefficient. It's obvious why the railroad quit
> using the building years ago.
Not to mention having to dodge the "pigeon bombs!"
Interior lighting was vastly improved once the sodium vapor lights were installed - I'm sure you saw 'em - but they were never able to solve the flooding problems caused by rain. The pits would become caverns that would take weeks to drain and became quite smelly, and the low areas of the floors and the elevated ramps became lakes.
After the shop crew was abolished (early Eighties or there abouts), mechanical department employees from the service track took up the slack. I'm sure they would've appreciated having a nice new area to work in.
I'm all for preservation, but some common sense has to be used.
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> While on the tour I thought: this would be a
> depressing place to work. Dangerous, cold, damp,
> inefficient. It's obvious why the railroad quit
> using the building years ago.
Not to mention having to dodge the "pigeon bombs!"
Interior lighting was vastly improved once the sodium vapor lights were installed - I'm sure you saw 'em - but they were never able to solve the flooding problems caused by rain. The pits would become caverns that would take weeks to drain and became quite smelly, and the low areas of the floors and the elevated ramps became lakes.
After the shop crew was abolished (early Eighties or there abouts), mechanical department employees from the service track took up the slack. I'm sure they would've appreciated having a nice new area to work in.
I'm all for preservation, but some common sense has to be used.
