. The Street railway journal . Companys 42-in. No. 2 boring mill, a McCabe double spindleengine lathe, Hendy Machine Companys shaper, Strong, Car-lisle & Hammond drill press, a Franklin portable hoist, a 200-ton wheel press, built by J. R. Schaffer & Company, Rochester,N. Y., and a wheel grinder built by the Springfield Manufac-turing Company, Bridgeport, N. Y. This is in a separate dust-proof room. The emery wheels are beltedto an independent motor hung outside theroom, while the lathe is belted to the lineshafting in the shop. Axles are turnedon the McCabe lathe, and the wheels. CANTON-AKRON
. The Street railway journal . Companys 42-in. No. 2 boring mill, a McCabe double spindleengine lathe, Hendy Machine Companys shaper, Strong, Car-lisle & Hammond drill press, a Franklin portable hoist, a 200-ton wheel press, built by J. R. Schaffer & Company, Rochester,N. Y., and a wheel grinder built by the Springfield Manufac-turing Company, Bridgeport, N. Y. This is in a separate dust-proof room. The emery wheels are beltedto an independent motor hung outside theroom, while the lathe is belted to the lineshafting in the shop. Axles are turnedon the McCabe lathe, and the wheels. CANTON-AKRON CAR HOUSE AND SHOPS, CANTON SUBURBAN WAITING STATION lounging room with built-in lockers, lavatory and stock buildings are brick with ornamental stone trimmings. Sofar as dimensions and general make up, the buildings are aduplicate of the shops built by the Columbus, Newark & Zanes-ville Traction Company at Newark, having been designed bythe same architect, E. H. Kitfield, of Boston. Each buildinghas five tracks, the car storage sec-tion having concrete floor with trackselevated on 8-in. x 12-in. oak tracksticks, the other having tongued andgrooved plank flooring. There arefive track pits, each 30 ft. long, hav-ing concrete floors. The rear sectionof one house is divided off for thewoodworking shop and the rear ofthe other for the machine shop. Thecarpenter shop has a transfer tablecovering three tracks with a pit underthe center track. The shop containsseveral woodworking tools, and theyhave practically rebuilt a number ofcars. At present they are buildinga
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