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Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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xperiencehas reduced this cost materially; it is now about $1,300,which is still considerably above the cost of a wooden car,but this railroad believes that steel box cars will, to a lari-extent, justify their higher first cost by their added durability,greater strength and longer life. Employees to the number of 705 are engaged in buildingthese steel box cars in the Altoona, Pa., shops. VCIJI Il nil STEJCL 11.iX CARS ARE BUILT The building in which the steel box cars are constructed—the companys Altoona steel car shop—cover- the space of alarge city square and looks as though it had been built to bethe mammoth of all convention halls. The visitors first im-pression is that he has entered a boiler factory. This i-because every car is put together with 5,100 rivets, and everyrivet is driven home with a rattle of blows from a pneumaticriveting tool—unquestionably one of the most successfulnoise-making devices ever invented. Someone with a taste for figures has calculated that on a
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Part of a Days Output of Steel Cars from the Pennsylvania Steel Car Shop, at Altoona the employees and the public. While the article is of the busy day the riveting tools in this building strike 1,000,000semi-popular type, as contrasted with the strictly technical impacts upon resounding steel, or 25 to 30 per second through-article, it will undoubtedlv prove of interest to many of our out the working hours,readers because of the information which it presents covering A steel box car from the trucks up—that is, the under- 194 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 90. No. 4 frame, body and roof—is built practically altogether ofriveted steel plates. These plates are first moved by overheadcranes to the shearing machines, of which there are several ofdifferent sizes. Suspended in chains, so that they may beswung and turned with the least possible expenditure ofhuman effort, the plates are seized by gangs of men who,combining skill with brawn, guide them between the blades ofthe shears, w

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