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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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well as to provide for some future increase ofbusiness, the layout being so designed that work shall passthrough the shops with a minimum of handling. The machine and boiler shop tools are divided into threegroups, each group being driven by a 40 horse power inductionmotor mounted on a steel bracket, supported by a building col-umn. The main line shaft is so arranged that any motor may be out of service and yet the important tools may be operatedby coupling its section of the main line shaft to adjacent sec-tions driven by the other motors. The west group includes thelathes, driving wheel press, shaper, milling machine and drillpresses. The middle group includes the planers, boring mill,slotter, grinders, etc., and the east group comprises boiler andtank shop machinery, including pressure pump for the watersystem. The toolmakers lathe and grinding machinery in the toolroom are driven by a 5 horse power motor mounted on wallbracket, and, in case of necessity, the tool room lineshafting
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Layout of Machinery in Erecting Shop 434 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC November, 1909 can be coupled to that in the forge shop and these tools drivenby a forge shop motor. Jib cranes are liberally provided foruse in stripping and assembling locomotives undergoing re-pairs. The heavier machine tools are likewise served by simi-lar cranes, ranging in capacity from one to four tons. Thesecranes were furnished by the Whiting Foundry Equipment Co.,each being fitted with a Yale & Towne chain hoist. Runninglengthwise of the erecting bay and near the machine boy is lo-cated the floor-controlled electric traveling hoist of 5 tons ca-pacity, equipped with three phase induction motors operating at460 volts. This hoist handles principally the driving wheel workbetween the various pits and the wheel lathe, but, in addition,it serves for general transportation of heavy material. In the southeast corner of the woodworking shop is locatedthe tools required for car wheel work, such as hydraulic wheelpre

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