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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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COAL POCKET AT AX INLAND STATION. Supplied by lo-ton hopper cars from a distant coal wharf. The car, shown above, ascends by a spiral track. 2. There are 8 power stations, widely scattered, with 15 differentstyles of engines and generators ranging in power from 62 to 2,700kilowatts nominal, making a total of 38 engines and 78 generators andmore than 200 feeder machine and station panels. There are 200 different smaller machines—motors, pumps, injectors, economizers, blow-ers, stokers, coal hoists, etc., and 80 boilers of 6 different styles. 3. There are about 40 car houses, scattered among many cities andtowns, with the usual mechanical equipment—cranes, hoists, ele- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 515
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A 25,0C)O-H0RSE-P0VVER BOILER PLANT.Coal is delivered by an electric mining train from a wharf across the street. vators, transfer-tables, boilers, fire pumps, machine tools, and black-smith apparatus, to the number of several hvmdred. 4. A car-manufacturing, equipment, and repair plant, with paintshops, machine, pattern, and carpenter shops, motor-repair shops, brassfoundry and blacksmith shop, maintaining besides the regular carequipment that of all the other departments, including 125 stationarymotors and several hundred vehicles of every description for regularand special service. 5. About 800 miles of steel rail with 1,100 miles of overhead andunderground trolley and feed wire, each with a multitude of electro-mechanical devices and connections and special appliances maintainedor furnished by the mechanical department. 6. A store house filled with large supplies of the many thousandsof appliances, either made in the manufacturing department or sup-plied by outside firms and subje

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