. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . months work. Theaverage life of the passenger and freight engine onthese lines is about two and a half years. The re-maining twenty-eight engines of the division arefreight and extra passenger engines. The blacksmithy has four forges and a steam ham-mer of ten tons. The machine shop is amply fittedwith necessary tools, a lathe for turning tires, whichis
. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . months work. Theaverage life of the passenger and freight engine onthese lines is about two and a half years. The re-maining twenty-eight engines of the division arefreight and extra passenger engines. The blacksmithy has four forges and a steam ham-mer of ten tons. The machine shop is amply fittedwith necessary tools, a lathe for turning tires, whichis now at work upon steel tires for the South PacificCoast Railroad, because the shops of that road atNewark have not the necessary tools for such work,an hydraulic press for putting wheels on, a largeplaner, a large slatting machine, three drill punches,and six lathes. Here also is the air compressorwhich supplies the block signal system, extendingfrom the pier to Sixteenth Street on the overlandlines, and to Alice Street on the Fifteenth Street roundhouse has room for twenty-one locomo-tives. The daily supply of coal used by the locomo-tives is, on the average, one hundred tons. The department employs one hundred and ten ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. iJ and the pay roll is growing larger every are classed as follows: Mechanics, thirty-four,comprising smiths, carpenters, boiler makers, ma-chinists, and painters; helpers, twenty-six; laborers,twenty-two; wipers, fifteen, being boys who are in theline pf eventually becoming engineers; watchmen anddispatchers, eleven; a foreman of the roundhouse anda foreman of the machine shop. The engineers num-ber ninety-five, and the firemen ninety-eight. Themonthly pay roll amounts to ^21,000, of which theengineers receive ^10,000, the repairing branch $6,000,and the firemen ;^5,000. The passenger engines outside of Oakland and theyards make a monthly run of one hundred eighteenthousand four hundred seventy-ei
Size: 1192px × 2096px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidillustrateda, bookyear1893
