. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and rivet machine; one3-in. Acme, one 2^i-in. American and one3;i-in. Ajax upsetting and forging ma-chine; one Ajax forging roll; one Ajaxhot saw and burring machine; two Brad-ley steam hammers, one of 125-ton andne of 200-ton capacity; one 800 steam hammer and one 1, hammer, and one electric welder,furnished by the Toledo Electric WelderCompany, Cincinnati. O. Four over-head cranes operate in this forging and riveting furnaces areheated with natural gas.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and rivet machine; one3-in. Acme, one 2^i-in. American and one3;i-in. Ajax upsetting and forging ma-chine; one Ajax forging roll; one Ajaxhot saw and burring machine; two Brad-ley steam hammers, one of 125-ton andne of 200-ton capacity; one 800 steam hammer and one 1, hammer, and one electric welder,furnished by the Toledo Electric WelderCompany, Cincinnati. O. Four over-head cranes operate in this forging and riveting furnaces areheated with natural gas. The axleilnishing department is equipped witheight lathes, seven Xiles and one Bridge-lord : four Xiles boring mills; one 300and one 200-ton Xiles wheel press. The miscellaneous order departmentwhere a wide variety of work is turnedout is equipped with one 120-in. Clevelandplate shear; two Cleveland overhangpunches with 4i<-in. stroke; two Hilles &Jones double punching and shearing ma-chines and two small stem punchingmachines. A large 500-ton R. D. Woodhydraulic press has been signed by the Ralston company, is usedfor heating large plates previous to theirbeing formed in the hydraulic furnace is equipped with two burn-ers at each end and three burners oneither side. The burners are so ar-ranged that the flames from the sidesstrike the top of the plates, while the end SIDE ST.\KE PUNCHING MACHINE. The forge shop is commanded by fouroverhead cranes built by the Ralstoacompany, each crane having a span of42 ft. and being equipped with a Shepardelectric hoist of 5 tons capacity. An elec-trically operateJ transfer car running ona broad gauge track connects the forgeshop with both of the main bays of the February, 1917. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 39 very fully equipped erecting shop. The construction department is equippedwith five deep gap 102-in. bull riveters ofthe Hanna type for riveting the sides ofthe cars. The material for each riveter is
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