. The Street railway journal . be found inrailway shop equipment. In the steam pipe departmentis a thread cutter that will thread pipes up to .six inches indiameter. Compressed air has heretofore been employed to alimited extent for the operation of air lifts and for otherpurposes. There are two air trolley lifts, one of which isa telescope lift and is employed chiefly for loading and vni-loading the cable grips to and from the transfer wagons. Re-cently however an additional equipment for the utilizationof compressed air has been added. An old heater boilerhas been repaired and put in positio
. The Street railway journal . be found inrailway shop equipment. In the steam pipe departmentis a thread cutter that will thread pipes up to .six inches indiameter. Compressed air has heretofore been employed to alimited extent for the operation of air lifts and for otherpurposes. There are two air trolley lifts, one of which isa telescope lift and is employed chiefly for loading and vni-loading the cable grips to and from the transfer wagons. Re-cently however an additional equipment for the utilizationof compressed air has been added. An old heater boilerhas been repaired and put in position near the air pump,which is of the ordinary Westinghouse locomoti\-e boiler will be as a reservoir and will increase thestorage capacity by 150 cu. ft. This additional supplywill be utilized for the operation of air jacks for the liftingof cars and air lifts for transferring motors, for cleaningcushions, boring holes in car sills, and other work aboutthe car .shop, cleaning castings by .sand blast and also for. FIG. 4.—CASTING BABBITT IN ARMATURE BOXES. sanding glass. There will be a number of additional airhoists, and air whistles in place of gongs will be employedfor morning, noon and dismissal calls. Another commendable arrangement noted is the pro-vision of a separate department kept under lock and ke}and in charge of an attendant, in which are storage bins forthe valuable scrap and valuable metals that are used aboutthe place. Thus there are bins for the copper, antimony,tin, lead, zinc and babbitt. The material is weighed out tothe moulders and the castings are also weighed so that themetal is all checked up, a certain per cent being allowedfor shrinkage, so that a careful watch is kept over all thevaluable metals. A. well equipped brass foundry is an adjunct of theshop, and in this there are eight furnaces. These are all hooded in for the removal of the offensive gases, and hereall kinds of trinunings and all work employed inoverhead and other c
Size: 2017px × 1239px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
