. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ges pared atone operation, and the job is , about half a minute. There are other attractions besidesformers in this blacksmith shop. Theyhave a special form of furnace for heating the whole Pennsylvania system. Hissuccessor, George L. Potter, bids fair tomake his mark as strongly as his prede-cessors. While in Fort Wayne I learned of apleasant action which was very character-istic of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-pany. Electricity is coming into increas-ing use in shops and in connection wit
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ges pared atone operation, and the job is , about half a minute. There are other attractions besidesformers in this blacksmith shop. Theyhave a special form of furnace for heating the whole Pennsylvania system. Hissuccessor, George L. Potter, bids fair tomake his mark as strongly as his prede-cessors. While in Fort Wayne I learned of apleasant action which was very character-istic of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-pany. Electricity is coming into increas-ing use in shops and in connection withtrain operating, and it was considereddesirable that the chief electrician shouldbe informed of all the latest developmentsin the business. The usual plan wouldbe to employ an electrician fresh from anelectric apparatus manufacturing estab-lishment. The Pennsylvania people weremore generous. They sent the electri-cian, who had been in their employ foryears, to the Westinghouse ElectricWorks at Pittsburgh, and paid his salaryand expenses for six months while he wasgetting posted. A. I ha,ve visited all the leading railroadshopfe and all the locomotive buildingshops in the country, and have alwayswatched the methods followed in theblacksmith shops, and I frankly admit thatI have never seenanything approachingthe labor-saving appliances in use in theFort Wayne shop. They not only havethe ordinary run of formers used in con-nection with bulldozers, bolt headers,Bradley hammers and steam hammers,but they have a variety of apparatus whichreceive motion from the machines towhich they are attached, and performmost complex operations on the hot ironor steel. This blacksmith shop is full ofmechanism designed to aid the work ofturning rough metal into finished inventive mechanic has made thisshop the best in the country for doingiron forgings cheaply, and the brain workrepresented has exercised a very materialinfluence in reducing the cost of cannot well go into d
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