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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of solid frame motorsfrequently become worn so that they fit loosely in themotor housings. This condition may be readily over-come when a bearing is in for rebabbitting by forcinga steel pin through the bearing in a manner to expandit. This pin should be made just large enough toexpand the bearing the proper amount to fit the par-ticular housing, which means that it is necessary tohave a different pin for each size of bearing. The pinshould be made somewhat in the shape of a cartridge.It is not advisable to try to expand bearings to take upan extremely worn condition, for there is danger ofcracking them. March 19, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 533 Shop Notes from Deer Lodge Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Shops at Deer Lodge, Mont., Maintain the Locomotives on theRocky Mountain and Missoula Divisions—The Routine Procedure and Some Special ProblemsAre Covered in This Article—Practical Studies Under Way Continually forthe Elimination of Weaknesses that Develop in Equipment
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LOCOMOTIVE AT HEAD OF PASSENGER TRAIN ON THE iMILWAlKEE THE electric locomotives for the Missoula andRocky Mountain divisions of the Chicago, Mil-waukee & St. Paul Railway are maintained in therepair shops at Deer Lodge. The two divisions stretchfrom Harlowton on the east to Avery on the west. DeerLodge being at the mid-point. At Deer Lodge areextensive ■ shops, formerly used in steam locomotivemaintenance, and here the division master mechanic,E. Sears, is located. On the two divisions which join at Deer Lodge thereare employed in freight service thirty-two General Elec-tric locomotives of the type described in the issues ofthis paper for June 5, 1916, page 1072, and Oct. 21,1916, page 888, and in passenger service ten Westing-house locomotives of the type covered in articles in theissues for March 23, 1918, page 559, and March 13,1920, page 510. The passenger engines are operated through theentire 440 miles as a regular thing and the freightlocomotives are similarly scheduled

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