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Identifier: electricrailway371911newy (find matches)
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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ing low. The door tender of the truck shop has a bench close to hisdoor and he assembles and reshapes worn controller fingers.This door tender also keeps track of the reserve supply ofbrake rods and rigging parts stored near him and in addition MACHINE SHOP EQUIPMENT AND PRACTICE I he machine shop is centrally located between the armature,forge and truck shops. It has floor space 228 ft. x 72 ft. sub-divided by two central rows of columns. This shop is of par-ticular interest because of its very complete equipment of tools,all of which are driven by independent motors. A generalview of the shop interior was published last week. The ab-sence of overhead shafting will be noted. A gear and casting cleaning tank has been installed betweenthe machine and truck shops. This tank has a cage in which10,000 lb. of dirty castings may be lowered into a bath of hotsoda water. The tools of this shop include those from the old shop, which No ol WWI, C.<^ End -.I A^.„ WHEEL RECORD AXLE No p),—
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Chicago Railways Shops—Pattern Storage Room with Steel Adjustable Shelving gives the machine and truck shop foreman daily advice asto how many wheels of each kind are ready to be deliveredto the carhouses. The trolley-pole assembly and repair work is done at abench on one side of the truck shop. This work requires allof one mans time. His working equipment includes a motor-operated drill press. He has stock supply bins for trolleywheels, harps, bases and miscellaneous parts. Chicago Railways Shops—Wheel Record have been equipped with motors and control. In addition tothese are a number of new tools purchased during the recon-struction period and designed for independent motor drive.Practically all of the shop tools are driven by Reliance motorsand a large number of the units have the Monitor control.Each tool may be started or stopped with push buttons locatedat one or more convenient points on the tool frame withinreach of the operator.The following statement includes most of the

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