. Electric railway journal . FIG. 3—DETAILS OF PINION HEATING TANK USED INCAR HOUSES OF SAME COMPANY. FIG. 2—PINION HEATING TANK DETAILED IN FIG. 1 FIG. 4—PINION HEATING TANK OVER FORGE 788 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 16 A considerable amount of pinion changing is done atthe outlying carhouses and as these in the summer arenot provided with steam some other method of heatingthe pinions was essential. All of the carhouses areequipped with tools for making minor repairs and witha blacksmith shop so the heating equipment shown indetail in Fig. 3 and by photograph in Fig. 4, was ar-range
. Electric railway journal . FIG. 3—DETAILS OF PINION HEATING TANK USED INCAR HOUSES OF SAME COMPANY. FIG. 2—PINION HEATING TANK DETAILED IN FIG. 1 FIG. 4—PINION HEATING TANK OVER FORGE 788 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 16 A considerable amount of pinion changing is done atthe outlying carhouses and as these in the summer arenot provided with steam some other method of heatingthe pinions was essential. All of the carhouses areequipped with tools for making minor repairs and witha blacksmith shop so the heating equipment shown indetail in Fig. 3 and by photograph in Fig. 4, was ar-ranged to heat the pinions over the forge. This equipment, of which seven outfits are beingbuilt, consists of 20 in. cut from the end of an 72-in. air storage tank by means of an oxy-acetylenetorch and mounted open end up on a truck built as shownin Fig. 3. This little pinion heating car, as it might becalled, operates on a short track attached to the forgeso that when the latter is needed for other purposesthe car can be pushed to one side for a few sufficient for the days
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