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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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hejiower plant. The main buildingcontains a blacksmith shop, a ma-chine .shop and a wood working■sho)). The power house is dividedinto a boiler room 50 ft. X 35 ft-and engine room 42 ft. X 3° ft.In the boiler room are four Nation-al tubular boilers 100 h. p. capacityeach. The engine room is equippedwith an electric light plant of twodynamos of respectively thirty-fiveand twenty-five arc lights run by asmall simple automatic engine anda 125 h. p. Rus.sell engine for theoperation of the shop machinery.Rope transmission is used to themain .shaft in the shops. Fig. 2 gives a view of a por-tion of the iron machine shop takenfrom the south end. This room issupplied witli the usual elaborate-equipment of iron working toolsneces.sary in the car .shops of anylarge s^stem of a .similar character.Among the many machines hereemplojed are wheel presses, one of which is seen to theright in the picture, power punch and shears .seen in thecenter of foreground, drill presses, iron planers, vertical
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FIG. 3.—CARPENTER SHOP. drills, slotting machines, lathes and car wheel boring ma-chines. Machines which are of special service to the black-smith department as well as the iron machine shop areplaced at the end nearest the former. In the every day 226 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol,. XII. No. 4. experience of a shop of this kind many opportunities arepresent for the making of simple devices to facihtate thework. Such a device is exhibited in the center foregroundof the cut standing on a riveting horse. It is simply astandard of iron through which works a vertical screw usedfor the renewing of bushings in troUej^ wheels. It is usu-ally kept in that portion of the shop devoted to the repairsand renewal to trolley poles. Another labor saving deviceof great value is a suspended iron trolley, patterned afterthe traveling trolle) used in packing houses for the shiftingof beef. This is provided with chain blocks and runs fromthe armature room through the wood working room and theentire leng

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