. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a very substantial and useful crane, which they have set up in their Burnside shops, the mechanical it has four motors, and 12 ft radius. It 1 uppoi ted track rail, and tl of the mast is sup- . track. It thus re- . 1 ilium Hoi All the easily aco img and repairs. It was speciallydesigned ior the Illinois Central, andis admirably adapted for the work itnow I. form. in. feature is its low Iii ..I 1 .cm Thi foui .distribute.] •, orking of this cram One for traveling the crane, .1 the tt olli j, o
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a very substantial and useful crane, which they have set up in their Burnside shops, the mechanical it has four motors, and 12 ft radius. It 1 uppoi ted track rail, and tl of the mast is sup- . track. It thus re- . 1 ilium Hoi All the easily aco img and repairs. It was speciallydesigned ior the Illinois Central, andis admirably adapted for the work itnow I. form. in. feature is its low Iii ..I 1 .cm Thi foui .distribute.] •, orking of this cram One for traveling the crane, .1 the tt olli j, on. foi t hi totalingjib and ting. An import neg- lected is tl that the load is al- ways in absolute control, being auto-matically sustained at all times. Thehoisting gear is provided with an im-proved double automata Ijrake,so arranged that the load may be raisedor lowered by power and all the timebe automatically sustained. This brakeattachment consists of two indi pi ndentbrakes, one electrical and one mechani-cal. The electric brake is operated byan electric solenoid in circuit with the. ELECTRIC WALKING i KANE IN THE BURNSIDE SHOPS. headquarters of the company at Chi-cago The crane is shown in our illus-tration and it is a good specimen ofthe excellent work done by the Whit-ing Foundry Equipment Company ofChicago. The work of the crane is topick up and distribute wheels and axlesto wheel lathes, and to carry wheelsfor storage, or to other places alongits line of march. We say line ofmarch because the crane moves alsingle track, and is called an electric-walking crane, for it does the work of agiant walking upon a beaten path. This crane is of seven tons capacity; ing motor, and so arranged as tocome automatically into when the electrical current is cut off the hoist-ing motor circuit. The Whiting Com-pany claim a maximum of efficiency forthis crane in the service it is designedto perform, together with a minimum ofcost as to installation and repairs. Itis instanced
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