. American engineer and railroad journal . by the application of suitable dies to a welding machine. In regard to the small tools for boiler shop use, such asdrills, reamers, taps, punches, chisels, etc., there should be anample supply in every shop. They should be kept in systematicorder in a tool room adjoining the boiler shop, and with strictregulations in regard to their use and return to the tool should not be located in the general tool room which isgenerally a part of, or an annex to, the machine shop, wherea walk of half a mile becomes in order to get them, with, ofcourse, th
. American engineer and railroad journal . by the application of suitable dies to a welding machine. In regard to the small tools for boiler shop use, such asdrills, reamers, taps, punches, chisels, etc., there should be anample supply in every shop. They should be kept in systematicorder in a tool room adjoining the boiler shop, and with strictregulations in regard to their use and return to the tool should not be located in the general tool room which isgenerally a part of, or an annex to, the machine shop, wherea walk of half a mile becomes in order to get them, with, ofcourse, the accompanying feature of so much lost time. Al-though the fact may have largely escaped notice, it is not verydifficult to criticise boiler shop facilities in general, and it isnow about time that this important department be accorded theattention to which it is entitled, and which is so liberally be-stowed on other shops possibly far less vital to the success ofthe general scheme. 143 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. April, <o Ho Z < o <n u H o 13 2 Powerful Freight and Passenger Locomotives THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS HAS RECENTLY DELIVERED KORTY FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES AND TEN PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVES TO THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. WHICH ARE EXCEPTIONAL IN THE NUMBER OF PARTS THAT ARE COMMON TO BOTH DESIGNS. Take a very large and powerful Pacific type locomotive de-signed for the heaviest class of high speed traffic and removethe driving and truck wheels, the main and front frames, rodsand valve gear. Press off the wheels and replace Ihem withcenters lo in. less in diameter, provide another pair of drivingwheels of the same kind, and new main and front frames withfour pedestals instead of three, provide a two-wheel enginetruck, new rods, equalizers and valve gear to suit, using the samedriving boxes, shoes and wedges and springs, as far as they eftort of 43,400 lbs. The total weight is 263,800 lbs., placingthem among the heaviest of this type ever constru
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