. The street railway review . GENERAL PLAN OF WORKS. traveling cranes, and all the sand mills, tumbling barrels, emerygrinders and blowers are driven by individual enclosed and dust-proof motors. The steel furnaces are arranged tor using oil fuel,which is controlled by compressed air, with efficient devices for pre-venting overflow or waste. The elevators for taking metal and fuelto the charging platforms of the cupolas are operated by com-pressed air, as are also the hammers, tamping tools, etc. The machine shop which was commenced in February, 1900, is186 x 200 ft. and is shown in section in
. The street railway review . GENERAL PLAN OF WORKS. traveling cranes, and all the sand mills, tumbling barrels, emerygrinders and blowers are driven by individual enclosed and dust-proof motors. The steel furnaces are arranged tor using oil fuel,which is controlled by compressed air, with efficient devices for pre-venting overflow or waste. The elevators for taking metal and fuelto the charging platforms of the cupolas are operated by com-pressed air, as are also the hammers, tamping tools, etc. The machine shop which was commenced in February, 1900, is186 x 200 ft. and is shown in section in one of the accompanyingillustrations. The ground floor is for erecting heavy are two bays 32 ft. wide with traveling cranes; on eacliside is a gallery 32 ft. wide, and in the center a gallery 51 ft. wide,and connecting bridges at each end of the shop, giving access be-tween the galleries. In the center of the building a third floor51 ft. wide is provided for lighter machinery. An intermediate. COKE l> AND HEATIN(. A IMAK ATIIS. nd Door is provided for storage purposes between the first llooisecond gallery. On this floor are lavatory, wash room and coatroom for the employes, the space occupied for this purpose bein^16 ft. wide by 125 ft. long. The machinery is so arranged thatthe floor work is continuous with the least possible amount ofcarrying, and enables finished parts from the machines to be readilydelivered, cither to the storage room or directly to the crcctin;; benches when required. One side of the shop is for the heavymachinery and the other has the erecting benches and testing ap-paratus. The power house is 60 x 125 ft. and its equipment comprises two130-h. p. Babcock & Wilcox boilers, one horizontal, automaticcnt-oflf engine of 200-h. p. and 82-kw. generators of the Christen-
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