. The Street railway journal . I48THSTREET SHOPS In addition to a few wood-work-ing tools, the 148th Street shop con-tains the following machinery: Two 42-in, Pond car wheel 200-ton Niles hydraulic 51-in. Niles boring and turning 42-in. King boring and turning 36-in. triple-geared Pond engine 28-in. Niles engine Acme bolt cutting Gould & Eberhardt Putnam Bement-Miles slotting 14-in. Reed engine mica slotting 28-in. Putnam engine armature 30-in. R
. The Street railway journal . I48THSTREET SHOPS In addition to a few wood-work-ing tools, the 148th Street shop con-tains the following machinery: Two 42-in, Pond car wheel 200-ton Niles hydraulic 51-in. Niles boring and turning 42-in. King boring and turning 36-in. triple-geared Pond engine 28-in. Niles engine Acme bolt cutting Gould & Eberhardt Putnam Bement-Miles slotting 14-in. Reed engine mica slotting 28-in. Putnam engine armature 30-in. Reed engine 24-in. LeBlond engine small drill presses, including one speed radial Gisholt tool emery wheels. One characteristic feature of themachine-tool equipment as a wholeis that mandrels are provided foreach standard machine-tool opera-tion, thus eliminating loss of time PNEUMATIC ON ER .\RM.\TURE RACKS IX THE 148TH STREET SHOP settmg Up the work and makmg. any heavy manual labor whatsoever,nor has the armature come into con-tact with the floor at any point inits progress. The following figures, extendingover a period of three months, coverthe cost of removing the truck fromthe car, the motor from the truckand the armature from the motor atthe 148th Street shops:To remove a motor truck from car to truck shop $ To take one motor out of truck. .75To take armature out of one motor 27 Total cost of removing an armature from car $i-58 To hoist trailer end of car andremove trailer truck andcarry trailer truck to truckshop 28 Note.—The difference in cost ofremoving the trailer and motortruck is due to the fact that themotor end of the car has to behoisted vip part way and rested onhorses to allow a man to get in ontop of the motor to disconnect the leads. It is then raised up to its permanent position on thehorses. In concluding the subject of shop conveyance it may beadded that every tool in the machine shop ha
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