. Review of the Peoria and Eastern Railway shops at Urbana, Ill. . d as fuel in this furnace. Power is dis-tributed by a single line of shafting driven by an electricmotor mounted upon a raised platform. Forge Shop. In the apartment to the east of the boiler shop isthe forge shop. Here the wrought iron and steel are workedinto the shapes required in the reconstruction of locomotiv-sand other rolling stock. The implements in this room are one fifteen tonChambersburg steam hammer. It has a maximum stroke of twenty-eight inches. Diameter of cylinder is twelve inches. Onecombination punch and shea
. Review of the Peoria and Eastern Railway shops at Urbana, Ill. . d as fuel in this furnace. Power is dis-tributed by a single line of shafting driven by an electricmotor mounted upon a raised platform. Forge Shop. In the apartment to the east of the boiler shop isthe forge shop. Here the wrought iron and steel are workedinto the shapes required in the reconstruction of locomotiv-sand other rolling stock. The implements in this room are one fifteen tonChambersburg steam hammer. It has a maximum stroke of twenty-eight inches. Diameter of cylinder is twelve inches. Onecombination punch and shear made by Dot., of Janesville, Wis-consin. One belt >itrading machine, Ten Buffalo Down draft for-ges, one open hearth forge, a grind stone, two Sturtevant blow-ers and a furnace. (4 Tin Shop. In the southwest section of the building, a spacehas been set apart for the tin shop where tin repairs and con-struction are done as for instance, lamps, reflectors, stoves,and pipe work. its dimensions are roughly fifty feet deepby twenty feet along the building
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