. Railway mechanical engineer . Fig. 2—A String of Steel Underframe Cars After Rebuilding wood box cars was taken up. These cars required new sidesills, plates, posts, decking, all siding, etc. In fact, theywere built entirely new from the sills up, with an insidemetal roof. (See Fig. 1.) Seven hours was set as a .sched-ule, with eight operations and a total of twenty-seven men,and this work was done at an average labor cost of $;cr car. Then followed the rebuilding of a series of 100steel underframe box cars, shown in Fig. 2, which were putthrough on a six hour schedule. These schedu
. Railway mechanical engineer . Fig. 2—A String of Steel Underframe Cars After Rebuilding wood box cars was taken up. These cars required new sidesills, plates, posts, decking, all siding, etc. In fact, theywere built entirely new from the sills up, with an insidemetal roof. (See Fig. 1.) Seven hours was set as a .sched-ule, with eight operations and a total of twenty-seven men,and this work was done at an average labor cost of $;cr car. Then followed the rebuilding of a series of 100steel underframe box cars, shown in Fig. 2, which were putthrough on a six hour schedule. These schedules were 281 282 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 94. No. 5 rigidly maintained, and a number of workmen were weededout as the work progressed on account of not keeping up withthe procession. Routing Cars and Material A word as to how the work was kept moving. All heavywork of this kind on which a schedule can be successfully. Fig. 3—A Badly Bent Sheet In the Flanging Clamp used is laid out on repair tracks which open on a transfertable on one end and to the repair track lead on the cars are brought in over the transfer table and started
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