. The Street railway journal . e company, and consist of aslab of Catalina marble, 1 in. x 7 ins. x 15 ins. in size, woundwith No. 21 tinned-steel broom wire. The marble is recessedslightly at the sides, so as to provide circulation for the air backof the wires. The heater is mounted vertically in iron castings. FIG. 14.—BLACKSMITH SHOP. SHOWING AT RIGHT HAMMER, AND BACK OF THAT, OIL FURNACEFOR AXLE AND OTHER FORCINGS and buildings the company makes a heater 4 ins. longer than thecar heater, and wound with more turns of wire. It is in this shop that the Anderson & Smith arc head
. The Street railway journal . e company, and consist of aslab of Catalina marble, 1 in. x 7 ins. x 15 ins. in size, woundwith No. 21 tinned-steel broom wire. The marble is recessedslightly at the sides, so as to provide circulation for the air backof the wires. The heater is mounted vertically in iron castings. FIG. 14.—BLACKSMITH SHOP. SHOWING AT RIGHT HAMMER, AND BACK OF THAT, OIL FURNACEFOR AXLE AND OTHER FORCINGS and buildings the company makes a heater 4 ins. longer than thecar heater, and wound with more turns of wire. It is in this shop that the Anderson & Smith arc head andinterior lights have been developed, the inventor being S. The headlights are being marketed by the St. LouisCar Company, but development work is being carried on in theLos Angeles shop, under Mr. Andersons direction. The head-lights are hung on two hooks on the dashboards of the cars,these hooks being connected to ground. The other side of thecircuit is formed by inserting a plug attached to the lamp into. FIG. 15.—SPECIAL TRACK WORK YARD a socket on the sill of the car. The resistance used on thePacific Electric Railway cars for two lights consists of a iron cylinder about 9 ins. long, wound with asbestosand fifty turns of No. 22 Climax wire. MACHINE SHOPIn the machine shop are made all the car repairs that re-quire machine work: axles are turned and car wheels bored March 19, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 435 and pressed on. The truck work is done there as well as all drills, planers, saws, etc. Fig. 10 is a view of the centralthe machining on special track work. The pneumatic trolley bay of the shop, where the heavy work is handled, and shows
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