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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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tely over the smoke stack regardlessof where the locomotive is stopped, within limits of course., The jack is suspended from a roof so arranged over themonitor as to be made to travel parallel with the pit. Boththe telescoping sections of the jack and the movement of themonitor roof are operated by sets of chains and controlled byhand wheels conveniently situated on the round house wall.The entire arrangement is well shown by the accompanying-illustration by reference to which the several features of ad-vantage may be readily seen. Unless great care is observed a locomotive entering a roundhouse will not be stopped immediately beneath a jack and ifit is not so stopped a portion of the smoke issuing from thestack is distributed throughout the house. Smoke from anumber of stacks, together with steam often present in around house, renders such a shop a very uncomfortable andinconvenient place in which to work at times. There is noquestion that men work to best advantage when comfortable;
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Showing Crane in Roundhouse with Adjustable Smoke Jack. the smoke stack used in lifting heavy steam chest covers, andsome heavier locomotives have had small jib booms attachedto their front ends. Blocks and tackles are sometimes sus-pended from the roof trusses to assist in lifting heavy loads,but none of these makeshifts can meet requirements nearlyso well as a traveling hand crane which spans the pit or apoi-tion of the pit. The crane can always be found; no timeis lost in looking for it or going to the tool room for it and itis always so located as to be readily run to desired positionover the engine. Heretofore the presence of smoke jackspresented an obstacle to the consistent use of cranes in theroundhouse, but this difficulty has been removed by a formof smoke jack originated by Mr. Paul Dickinson of Ghicagoand specially designed to allow a crane to pass above a loco-motive in the round house without obstruction. This provi-sion is made by building the jack in sections and arran

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