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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n alternate repair tracks. Cars inthis way will pass through the shop on certain tracks, ac-cording to the nature of their repairs, whether heavy, light ormedium. An overhead trolley will carry all scrap parts fromthe rear end of the shop to the scrap platform, also the wheelsto the wheel shop to be pressed off. Finished wheels andsupplies, such as brasses and springs from the supplj house, aretaken in at the upper end of the repair shop, while those forthe passenger car shop will be taken in car-load lots to thatbuilding. The lumber yard, dry kiln and planing mill areplaced in line, so that the finished material will pass out atthe rear end of the mill to the repair shop or to the passengercar shop. The latter building will be separated from the paintshop by an SO-ft. transfer table, so that cars will move in theone general direction through the paint shop out to meet thefinished freight cars, and both find their way to the mainline. This progressive movement has also been adhered to
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Wn lrc:7 Ha>9 General Plan of New Locomotive and Car Shops-Central Railroad of New Jersey.Wm. McIntosh, Superintendent vf Motive Power. G. W. Wildik, Mechanical Engineer. the new shops, as this is the junction of the main line with theNewark and Perth Amboy divisions. The triangular shapeof the grounds, with the tracks on the main line on one side,those of the Newark division on the second, and Newark Bayon the third side, added considerably to the problems of locat-ing the tracks and buildings in such a way that every part ofthe shopyard would be in easy communication with everyother part. By the use of a transfer table this plan has beensuccessfully carried out. As empty cars will naturally collect at this junction, thoseneeding repairs will be switched into a yard for crippled cars,not shown, in the upper part of the grounds. The tracks forthis storage yard are built on the gravity principle and finallyconverge into a single track, which again branches out intoa series of tracks

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