. Electric railway review . he winding room to be used in banding armatures. A March 2, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 283 200-ton wheel-press is also provided for pressing on com-mutators and removing armature shafts from the are raised and lowered between the machine shopand the winding room through a trap door in the floor, bymeans of block and tackle. Later it is intended to do thiswork with an electric hoist. One of the accompanying illustrations shows the windingstands, hoist and carriage used for handling armatures. inch T-rails are used over the pits. These are sup
. Electric railway review . he winding room to be used in banding armatures. A March 2, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 283 200-ton wheel-press is also provided for pressing on com-mutators and removing armature shafts from the are raised and lowered between the machine shopand the winding room through a trap door in the floor, bymeans of block and tackle. Later it is intended to do thiswork with an electric hoist. One of the accompanying illustrations shows the windingstands, hoist and carriage used for handling armatures. inch T-rails are used over the pits. These are supportedevery 6 feet and at a height of 3 feet 11 inches above thepit floor by 6-inch cast-iron pipes filled with sand and setin concrete. At the top of each pipe a casting, 7 by 10 inches,is provided with four holes for anchor-bolts which hold therail to the pipe. Provision is also made, by means of a 5 by5-inch lug cast on the outside and near the top of each post,for stringers on which it is intended to lay plank walks be-. New Shops and Car Storage at Nashville—Interior of Machine Shop. New Shops and Car Storage at Nashville—Interior of Carpenter Shop. The armature repairs are simplified to a great extent by thecomparatively uniform types of motor equipment, there beingfour types, namely. G. , , 67 and Storage building occupied by the car house is divided longi-tudinally into five bays, each 35 feet wide, by the reinforcedconcrete pillars. 14 by 14 inches in cross section, which sup- tween the pits. These stringers act as tie-rods for steadyingthe rails of each pit. The pit tracks are laid with 11-footcenters. At either end of the building concrete floors extend fromthe ends of the pits to the curbing on the property line ofthe street. These floors and the floors of the pits as well asthe tracks are sloped to the north and the west, affording an
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