. Railway master mechanic [microform] . 60,000 lbs. Capacity Car for the Milwaukee Refrigerating Transit Company—Plan and Elevation. Railroad Shop Tools By Charles H. FitchXII. EQUIREMENTS and ideas of planing ma-chines were ambitious from the first. Someof the very first planers built between1830 and 1840 were big tools for any Chelmsford, Mass., firm building cane-crushing machinery for sugar mills con-structed a planer to take work 42 in. x 42in. by 22 ft! travel. The table traverse waseffected by a link belt or chain with theusual dog on the table reversing a belt, whose suffer-in
. Railway master mechanic [microform] . 60,000 lbs. Capacity Car for the Milwaukee Refrigerating Transit Company—Plan and Elevation. Railroad Shop Tools By Charles H. FitchXII. EQUIREMENTS and ideas of planing ma-chines were ambitious from the first. Someof the very first planers built between1830 and 1840 were big tools for any Chelmsford, Mass., firm building cane-crushing machinery for sugar mills con-structed a planer to take work 42 in. x 42in. by 22 ft! travel. The table traverse waseffected by a link belt or chain with theusual dog on the table reversing a belt, whose suffer-ing was audible. Both vertical and horizontal^ feedswere automatic. This, the first tool of its kind in NewEngland, was as large as is now found in some loco-motive repair shops and larger than the largest planerin the 12th St. shops of the Allis-Chalmers Company,Chicago, as late as 1900. It should be said, however,. that the locomotive shops of trunk line divisions, suchshops as Oelwein, have usually a 60 in. x 60 in. planerwith 26 or 30 ft. travel, seconded by a 36 in. x 36 , while the Betts Company, of Wilmington,have just completed a planer to take work 122 in. x122 in. with 36 ft. travel, which is hardly extraordi-nary, as other makers list and build 120 in. x 120 The new Collinwood shops largest planeris a 54 in. x 54 in. Pond special for locomotive frames,having 32 ft. travel and using a 20 H. P. motor. Theirremaining planer equipment comprises a 42 in. x 42 12 ft. Gray, a 42 in. x 42 in. x 10 ft. Niles, a 38 in. x38 in. x 10 ft. Niles, a 36 in. x 36 in. x 10 ft. Pond, aDietrich & Harvey open-side taking a 10 H. P. motor,and an old Richards 20 in. x 50 in. open-side. Theplaner is a more distinctively railroad shop tool than 126 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC April, 1904. the milling machine, and even the latter takes theplaner type, as shown in Figure 2, a four-head
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