. Electric railway review . ated machinetools, as these are independently driven. One of the accompanying cuts shows a view of the toolroom and shop foremans office, the tool room being belowand the office above. In providing this office the spot bestsuited to ready supervision was selected. From the super-intendents office one is able to see about the entire shop North Jersey Shops—Wheel Repair Department. hand forges. Six Buffalo down-draft forges are in forges get their blast through underground ducts fromair generated by fans and the smoke and gases are takenaway through exha
. Electric railway review . ated machinetools, as these are independently driven. One of the accompanying cuts shows a view of the toolroom and shop foremans office, the tool room being belowand the office above. In providing this office the spot bestsuited to ready supervision was selected. From the super-intendents office one is able to see about the entire shop North Jersey Shops—Wheel Repair Department. hand forges. Six Buffalo down-draft forges are in forges get their blast through underground ducts fromair generated by fans and the smoke and gases are takenaway through exhaust ducts by the same method. One ofthe accompanying cuts shows a group of the new standardfenders piled outside, convenient to the forge snop. which isequipped for their manufacture. Wheel Room. The wheel room, shown in one of the accompanying cuts, takes up the rear end of the building and is convenient to the wheel platform outside. The machines in the wheel room are driven by separate motor and line shafting and there. North Jersey Shops—Tool Room and Office of Shop Foreman. and have an eye on all that is going on. The new portionof the machine shop building is single floor, similar to theremaining new construction, the west side being a continuation of the overhauling shop and the east side being reservedfor the smith work in the blacksmith shop. In the forgingdepartment are some heavy tools not usually met with instreet railway shops. The accompanying photograph showsa heavy Williams & White bulldozer and Ajax forging ma- Norti Jersey Shops—Electric Yard Crane at Work in WheelStorage Yard. are two improved 200-ton wheel presses, two boring mills anda lathe. Axle racks are arranged between the columns,convenient to the work. All the new axles are 4% inches andthe gear wheels are pressed on the axles instead of being ofthe split type. We understand that the gear wheels placedlie axle give much better satisfaction and last longerthan the split gear. The wheel and axle
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