. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . out a yard, over rails in tracks, etc., is difficultwithout the aid of some device for delivering more powerto them than direct muscular power. The accompanyingphotograph shows a handy jack stick that is very helpfulin this task. A piece of 4x4 inch hardwood 5 feet long is turned or Ji January, 1927 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 21 trimmed down at one end to a good hand grip, beginningabout 18 or 20 inches from one end of the piece. A handleresembling the handle used in peavies or cant h
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . out a yard, over rails in tracks, etc., is difficultwithout the aid of some device for delivering more powerto them than direct muscular power. The accompanyingphotograph shows a handy jack stick that is very helpfulin this task. A piece of 4x4 inch hardwood 5 feet long is turned or Ji January, 1927 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 21 trimmed down at one end to a good hand grip, beginningabout 18 or 20 inches from one end of the piece. A handleresembling the handle used in peavies or cant hooks isthus formed, except one end is square down about 20inches. Bolted onto this square portion is a triangularshaped block made also of hardwood, with the broad endupward. This block is made from a piece of material 4inches thick. The upper end that thus forms a shoulderis rounded out so that an axle will not so readily roll offit when its weight is lifted on the shoulder. When trucks for bolting on the triangular piece. However, it is a handytool, and greatly appreciated by car repairmen, Special Jack Facilitates Handling Railway Car Trucks are to be moved about the yard, over rail, etc., the lowerend of this jack is passed under the axle with the handlein a diagonal position and the shoulder upward or turnedupward after it is passed under the axle, so that when thehandle is raised upward the axle will rest on this the handle is brought upward and over forward, byone or two men. Besides the forward pressure of thehandle against the axle, as this shoulder rises upward theweight of one end of the axle is lifted on it. The shouldershould be 3 inches higher than the under side of the axlewhen the jack is standing vertically beside it. Thus thewheels are lifted over the rails when necessary to pass themover it, and it is also handy in throwng one end of the axleforward when a pair of trucks are being transferred fromone place to another by rolling them and it
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