. American engineer and railroad journal . INTERIOR OF GREY IRON FOUNDRY—SOUTH LOUISVILLE. the finished car or locomotive, or where they will be finishedready for shipment to outside points, when they are eithertransferred to the storehouse or loaded for shipment at themost convenient place nearest to the point where they arefinished. • Th« previous articles of this series were: General Plan and Opera-tion, page 209, June, 1906. Car Department, page 379, October, House, page 419, November, 1906. middle of the building, as shown on the general plan, page20S, June, 1906. The building
. American engineer and railroad journal . INTERIOR OF GREY IRON FOUNDRY—SOUTH LOUISVILLE. the finished car or locomotive, or where they will be finishedready for shipment to outside points, when they are eithertransferred to the storehouse or loaded for shipment at themost convenient place nearest to the point where they arefinished. • Th« previous articles of this series were: General Plan and Opera-tion, page 209, June, 1906. Car Department, page 379, October, House, page 419, November, 1906. middle of the building, as shown on the general plan, page20S, June, 1906. The building is a steel frame brick structure, about 90 by440 ft., the main portion being formed of a single span, 70 , with an addition 20 ft. wide opening into the main por-tion and extending along the western side. The roof of themain portion is of the saw tooth type, the sides containingthe glass facing north. A composition roofing is used on the Febbuary, 1907. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. SI. PLAN OF FOUNDRIES—SOUTH LOUISVILLE. main part, while the roof of the addition is of Book tile cov-ered with composition roofing. The building is divided by two brick walls, 3 ft. 6 ins. high,into three parts, the top of these walls being covered with ironcoping and having a wire partition extending 6 ft. 6 ins. abovethem. The grey iron foundry is about 320 ft. long, the coreroom 40 ft, and the brass foundry about 80 ft. Two 54-in. 80,000 lbs. capacity cupolas, built by the WhitingFoundry Company, are placed at about the middle of the end of the building. The ladles are poured by means of theMiles 20-ton traveling crane, which has a span of 67 ft. 2 Ins.,and extends the entire length of the building. The cores for the grey iron castings, except for the verylarge ones, and for the larger brass castings are made in thecore room between the grey iron and brass foundries, andbaked in the four large ovens. These are heated by open firesplaced in one end of the oven. The core ra
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