. Electric railway journal . pace 25 ft. wide x 210 ft. long, in which the machinetools have been installed. This floor space is served by a 15-ton crane. The equipment of tools now includes the follow-ing : Niles-Bement-Pond wheel press driven by an inductionmotor, wheel lathe, wheel boring mill, axle lathe, drill presses,planers, emery wheels, hacksaws and punch. The smaller tools are now run from a line shaft driven bytwo motors, but it is the intention of the companys engineersgradually to equip all tools with independent motor drive. Theheavy machine tools used in wheel and axle work are
. Electric railway journal . pace 25 ft. wide x 210 ft. long, in which the machinetools have been installed. This floor space is served by a 15-ton crane. The equipment of tools now includes the follow-ing : Niles-Bement-Pond wheel press driven by an inductionmotor, wheel lathe, wheel boring mill, axle lathe, drill presses,planers, emery wheels, hacksaws and punch. The smaller tools are now run from a line shaft driven bytwo motors, but it is the intention of the companys engineersgradually to equip all tools with independent motor drive. Theheavy machine tools used in wheel and axle work are groupedat one end of the machine section. Close to the center of thisgroup is a post crane with sufficient swing to admit of han-dling wheels and axles to and from any one of the tools bywhich they are regularly worked. Smaller bracket cranes withchain blocks are installed at each of the heavier tools. The bearing department with its bricked-in babbitt furnace isinstalled close to the machine-tool section on the same side of. South Bend Shops—Machine Shop Section for 26 62-ft. cars, and yard tracks have been installedto store 50 additional cars. The tracks in the yards have beenso laid out that a large interurban car will completely clear allcurves before entering the barn. The yard layout includesladders on opposite sides of the property, two connectingtracks, one of which is located in a parallel street, four stub-end storage tracks extending across the yard and the ninetracks which extend into the shop buildings. A Y at thesoutheast corner provides for turning cars, and an industrialsiding connecting with the main line of the Grand Trunk Rail-way permits the economical transfer of heavy materials fromsteam cars to electric cars. This track layout for the shop and yards has curves with aminimum radius of 50 ft. The special track work was sup-plied by the Lorain Steel Company. The grading of the yardsprovides a 2^2-ft. drop from the shop entrances to the laddertracks. All th
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