Three tracks provide capacity for repairs up to 50 cars per day.  The building is 2,762 feet long-more than half a mile. The width is 180 feet with 90 foot bays on either side containing welfare facilities for employees, offices, storehouses and shops. The building is W feet high and contains more than 700,000 square feet of floor space. At full capacity the shop provides employment for approximately 1,500.

The design of the plant incorporates many new devices and procedures developed from intensive studies of car shop operation, not only on the Pennsylvania Railroad but on other railroads and in the plants of numerous car builders.

Samuel Rea Shop is presently engaged in building eight new 50'-6" box cars and twelve new 65'-6" gondola cars per day. A program for building 100-75' flat cars for T.T.X. at the rate of six cars per day is being completed. Twelve 70-ton three pocket hopper cars also are being rebuilt from existing 43 year old 70-ton four pocket hopper cars through application of new body including center sill, reusing existing trucks, air brakes and draft gears. New freight car building program will be completed late in the first quarter of 1958. The program of rebuilding twelve 70-ton hoppers per day is a continuous program and will be supplemented by sixteen heavy repair 50-ton two pocket hopper cars and twenty heavy repair 40'-6" and 50'-6" box cars upon completion of the new freight cars. This will produce a daily output of 48 rebuilt and heavy repair cars. It is anticipated that this output of rebuilt and heavy repair cars will continue through the years of 1958 and 1959.

East of the car shop is the new Reclamation Plant, completed February, 1954, to handle reclamation of various car parts and track materials and to scrap obsolete rolling stock and equipment. Many of the parts reclaimed here are used at Samuel Rea Shop.

PETERSBURG, Pennsylvania

Here the Hollidaysburg and Petersburg secondary track rejoins the main line which will be followed en route to Philadelphia.