. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f 500 horsepower each, and two fans for supplyingheated air to the blacksmith and freightcar repair shops. In the other part ofthe power house two 500 horse powertandem gas engines direct connected with300 kilowatt generators supply power tothe shops. An air compressor of feet per minute capacity suppliesair for all pneumatic purposes. The boiler shop, 225 feet by 100 feet, isequipped with a 35-ton travelling electriccrane and a full complement of the latestmachinery. A 10-ton cran
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f 500 horsepower each, and two fans for supplyingheated air to the blacksmith and freightcar repair shops. In the other part ofthe power house two 500 horse powertandem gas engines direct connected with300 kilowatt generators supply power tothe shops. An air compressor of feet per minute capacity suppliesair for all pneumatic purposes. The boiler shop, 225 feet by 100 feet, isequipped with a 35-ton travelling electriccrane and a full complement of the latestmachinery. A 10-ton crane is also inoperation on one side of the shop. Thesmith shop, 375 feet by 75 feet, isequipped with furnaces operated by natu- ral gas which has been found a shortdistance away. There are 24 forgesarranged in pairs and 5 large singleforges. A number of steam hammersare in operation. The smoke is carriedout beneath the floor by the down draftsystem, leaving the shop entirely clear ofsmoke. The planing mill is situated convenientto the passenger car shop and freightcar shop. The locomotive shops com-. ( \R SHOPS OF THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY. MONCTON, N. B. largest and best equipped shops inAmerica. The locomotive erecting shopis 375 feet by 80 feet, and is more thantwice as large as the old shops and is ar-ranged in departments each caring forcertain similar parts of rolling stockThe machines are mostly motor pits arc placed at an angle, or her-ring bone fashion to economize space. This is a new department wherein newtools are made and those in use re-ground. The passenger car and paint shopscomprise two buildings each 361 feet by100 feet and are built to handle 34 pas-senger cars; 22 was the capacity of thoseshops destroyed by lire. Between theshops is placed a traveling table on which prise the machine shop and annex, boilershop, boiler erecting shop, engine erectingshop, and smith shop, all under one four latter shops are parallel to themain line, but at rig
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