Railway and Locomotive Engineering . tachywhen applied by the old process, could besuflficiently dried by the aid of heat to re-move the tach, and thus render them ina condition to which black dirt, soot, etc.,would not readily .idher». The exteriorof a car could, therefore, be more readilypreserved in its clean, glossy appearance,which it has when it leaves the paint shop,by the application of the baking making hundreds of tests on smallsteel panels, it was decided to build anoven sufficiently large for any car, in 1912, and tliis first oven was completedin January, 1913 The fi
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . tachywhen applied by the old process, could besuflficiently dried by the aid of heat to re-move the tach, and thus render them ina condition to which black dirt, soot, etc.,would not readily .idher». The exteriorof a car could, therefore, be more readilypreserved in its clean, glossy appearance,which it has when it leaves the paint shop,by the application of the baking making hundreds of tests on smallsteel panels, it was decided to build anoven sufficiently large for any car, in 1912, and tliis first oven was completedin January, 1913 The first illustrationshows one end of this oven closed witlia car inside undergoing the bakingprocess. The oven is 90 feet 3 incheslong, and .mly lialf of it shows in thepicture, as the other half extends into theshop. The second illustration shows theend of the same oven after it has beenopened, and from which the car beingpainted is about to be removed. Thethird view shows the number plate on aear after two years and eight days scrv-. XUMRER ON C.\R AFTER OVERTWO VEARS .SERVICE. ice, and from this it will be seen that thegold figures with the black edges and thetuscan red body color are all in an ex-cellent state of preservation. The last il-lustration shows an interior view of thesame car after two years and eight daysservice. This same car has now been inservice for thirty-four months, and thecondition is still nearly as good as rep-resented by the illustration. In the courseof two or three months the car will be re-turned to the shops for the jjurpose ofhaving the color touched up where ithas been abraded, after which it will be i.\ri:Ri(iR \ 11 \\ , IF lAR \|-M-i; mukv. TIIAX lVVr» YEARS SERVICE, revarnished by the baking pnjcess forthe first time since it was built, and re-turned to service. It might be said thatthis oven has been in continuous servicesince it was built, and no changes havebeen made on it except that some addi-tional steam coil radiators were intro-d
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