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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s seems to havebeen looked after in the Chicago & NorthWesterns shops. There is an annex to this machine shop,consisting of a large room, well lighted,with a balcony running all around it. Onone side of this balcony are kept all thebrass parts, brass lathes, and all the brasswork, both machine and vise, is done inthe balcony. On one end the air-pumpwork is done, and on the opposite side all boiler shop. The machine shop is so designed that they could not have a heavycrane in it. They also have three over-head cranes in the erecting shop, of 20-toncapacity, for handling engines and partsof engines. They turn out about one en-gine per day in the erecting shop. Theshop is roomy, well lighted and a ver> de-sirable place to work. BOILER SHOP. The boiler shop can justly be classedone of the leaders of locomotive boilershops in the country, and is a very large,well-lighted building. It is served with alarge electric crane, run at a high rate ofspeed and capable of handling the largest
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I. POWER STATION.3. ERECTING SHOP. 2. ANNEX TO MACHINE SHOP.4. BOILER SHOP. ing for a toilet and wash room, to servethe men in the machine shop, which is avery neat affair and uoes away with hav-ing clothes lockers scattered all aroundthe plant. In this building a locker is pro-vided for each man, and hot water, coldwater and porcelain wash b sins to washin. MACHINE SHOP. The main building, used as a machineshop, is divided in the center by a trackrunning from one end to the other, andon this track they have a portable electriccrane that serves the machines as well asthe erecting shop. The machine shop isrun with three electric motors (on the the machine air-pump work and the Jones& Lamson turret lathes are located. Alarge elevator running from the floor tothe balcony facilitates handling heavyparts. They have given a great deal of at-tention to special labor-saving tools in thebrass-working department, and many ofthese are quite ignenious and are wellworth investigating. In one e

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