. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rmance sheet, might LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 441 be somewhat more equitable and satisfac-tory, where nearly similar conditionvail. @ § ® Air-DHven Buffing Tools. At the West Detroit shops of the Michi-gan Central Railroad, they have fitted upan old hoisting engine that had lainaround rusting for years, into a motor forthe buffing tools for cleaning and polishing all bright metal coach cleaning plant is several hundred feetaway from the steam supply, and owing The Beginning of Organized Wreck
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rmance sheet, might LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 441 be somewhat more equitable and satisfac-tory, where nearly similar conditionvail. @ § ® Air-DHven Buffing Tools. At the West Detroit shops of the Michi-gan Central Railroad, they have fitted upan old hoisting engine that had lainaround rusting for years, into a motor forthe buffing tools for cleaning and polishing all bright metal coach cleaning plant is several hundred feetaway from the steam supply, and owing The Beginning of Organized WreckingService. i ii< birth of wirailroads, that is. spi cial en v el apart for tli<- put i handling and i ; up wrei i dati fi the year 1J865 on the 1 rii load. Mr. C. A, Smith, who was atthai time the ma tei cat builder of theErie system, i- the authoi ol the movelooking to a more complete and satis-factory dispo a! ol the problem arisingfrom wrecked equipment. A reliable man was a].point, ,1 to supc ii i i a gang of laborers of his own choos-ing, and a car was buill for their con. LIBRARY AND SMOKING END OF CAFE CAR. to this fact it was decided to use air forthe motive power to drive the tools. Theair supply is abundant at ioo pounds pres-sure, and since the engine requires but 15pounds to handle the buffers, somecabinet shop tools are to be installed ata convenient point near the engine to getthe benefit of the reserve power. A de-lightfully cool atmosphere results fromthe exhaust of the engine, which fact helpsto make friends and find openings forthe introduction of the new power forsummer uses at points remote or near tothe steam boilers, saving shafting, pul-leys, couplings and hangers. ence, furnished with bunks and equipped with wrecking apparatuscomprising switch ropes, jacks, , hammers, etc. The present system,copied from this, is hardly more completeor efficient than the one of thirty-twoyears ago: may get out a little sooner, butdo no bet
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