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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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xhaust are run by one 1 0-hp Crocker-Wheeler motor; the latter,together with the blower and exhaust, being placed on an ele-vated platform. The exhaust carries the gases directly into theold power house stack. Besides exhausting the fumes from theforges, the blower also carries away the dust from the sand-blastroom. This sand-blast room, which is 30 ft. x 19 ft., and isused for finishing off castings, has a large square pit covered withcast-iron gratings. In this pit, several inches above the bottom,lies a terra cotta pipe connected to the 1 5-in. terra cotta exhaustpipe which runs under the row of forges and connects up bymeans of an iron galvanized pipe to the exhaust. In finishing upthe castings or sand blasting, the rough castings are placed on topof the gratings and the dust is carried away by the fan, while thesand drops down to the bottom of the pit and can be used overagain. In the blacksmith shop are also located the melting pots 5oo STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XXVI. No. 13.
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for the spelter, which is used for setting hardened steel centers.Here are also located heavy shears, power hammers, drill pressand grinders. Back of the blacksmith shop is the sand-dryingroom, which has a large pit for the dried sand; and further backis the yard, where a pneumatic drop for breaking up scrap is lo-cated. Old special work is broken up here and assorted, thecast iron and spelter being used over again, while the rail is sold. Alongside of the blacksmith shop and yard the old car housepits have been utilized for storing special work. This is alsoserved by a 2-ton electric crane which runs the entire length. Thegeneral roadway storerooms, mens lavatories and lockers and oneshower bath is located in the north part of the building. Thereare also several hoists for handling material. The shops are heated by a boiler plant located alongside thewest side of the layingout yard, and the heating is done by Slurte-vant steam hot-blast system. The pipes through which the hotblast is

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