. Electric railway journal . achine shop. This machinery is necessary onaccount of the companys policy of manufacturing most ofits own repair parts. A large part of the track specialwork is also made in the machine shop and cast in thecompanys own foundry. July 26, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL The illustration of the blacksmith shop shows the ham-mers and forging machine, as well as several of the shop is equipped with the Buffalo down-draft sys-tem, having direct-connected motors to blowers as wellas to suction fans. There are six Buffalo down-draftforges and three air forges, a
. Electric railway journal . achine shop. This machinery is necessary onaccount of the companys policy of manufacturing most ofits own repair parts. A large part of the track specialwork is also made in the machine shop and cast in thecompanys own foundry. July 26, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL The illustration of the blacksmith shop shows the ham-mers and forging machine, as well as several of the shop is equipped with the Buffalo down-draft sys-tem, having direct-connected motors to blowers as wellas to suction fans. There are six Buffalo down-draftforges and three air forges, as well as an oil forge forcase-hardening and melting babbitt. men overhaul the trucks. The motors are then replacedon the trucks and receive a running test after they havebeen put under the car. An inspector also tests them outin the yard before they leave the works. At one end of the motor and truck shop is the wheelshop. This contains one axle lathe, two wheel presses,one 100-ton and one 300-ton; one Niles wheel-boring ma-. Portland Shops—Interior View of Paint Shop Showing Track Arrangement for Standard and Narrow-Gage Cars The main truck and motor shop adjoins the machineshop and armature room. Each pit in the shop is equippedwith a home-made screw hoist for hoisting car bodies, aswell as a swinging and traveling crane with air hoistattached. All cars brought in for overhauling are takeninto this shop. The body is raised off the trucks with the chine and one Niles 42-in. steel tire lathe. There is also awheel grinder for grinding flanges. All flat spots areground out at the carhouses underneath the cars, but itis often found that wheels with chipped flanges can bere-ground when the flanges are deep and then can be usedover again.
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