. The Street railway journal . ess prove of greatvalue to the street railway interests at large. Thefoundry is a plain building, 40 X 40 ft., and the cupola ap-pliances are rather crude, but the flasks and moulding-apparatus are of a high order. The car wheels are castin iron flasks with home made chills, the material beingscrap and enough pig iron to make a durable proportions employed are about 400 lbs. of scrap to200 lbs. of pig iron. Two annealing pits and cranes forhandling the wheels are provided, and the output is abouttwelve thirty inch wheels every two days. The wheelsare pr
. The Street railway journal . ess prove of greatvalue to the street railway interests at large. Thefoundry is a plain building, 40 X 40 ft., and the cupola ap-pliances are rather crude, but the flasks and moulding-apparatus are of a high order. The car wheels are castin iron flasks with home made chills, the material beingscrap and enough pig iron to make a durable proportions employed are about 400 lbs. of scrap to200 lbs. of pig iron. Two annealing pits and cranes forhandling the wheels are provided, and the output is abouttwelve thirty inch wheels every two days. The wheelsare provided with a thicker flange than is usually foundon commercial wheels, and so far, the home made articleis giving very excellent service, the life averaging fromfive to seven months. The motor wheels weigh about300 lbs. and cost about $ each. In the opinion ofthe engineer it does not pay to grind down the treadsof old wheels. Very little trouble has been had so farwith slid flat wheels, only one pair having been taken out. -Stfi-y,Journal FIG 2.—GRADY MONUMENT AND POST and two small oil houses, which are built of brick, andwhich are detached from the other buildings. The present power equipment consists of two Cooperengines of 300 h. p. each, which are run at ninety revolu-tions, and from which the power is transmitted by meansof leather belts to a forty foot countershaft, and from this,in both directions, to seven generators, which are of the D62 Thomson-Houston type. Munson belting, and also belt-ing manufactured by the Southern Belting Company, ofAtlanta, is employed. One of the engines is provided withtwo eccentric levers, so that the intake and exhaust valvesare operated separately, resulting, in the opinion of the sta-tion engineer, by whom the second rod was applied, inan improved service. There is no reserve power, bothengines being constantly run. The boiler equipment con-sists of three return tubular boilers of 125 h. p. each, whichwere manufactured by the Bige
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