The story of the Pullman car . was a wood-working industry. At one fell strokethe old order changed to the new. The songs of theband-saw and the planer were stilled and in theirstead rose the metallic clamor of steam hammer andturret lathe, and the endless staccato reverberationof an army of riveters. Ponderous machines to bend,twist, or cut a bar or sheet of steel filled the vastworkrooms. An army of steel workers, Titans ofthe past reborn to fulfill a modern destiny, fannedthe flames in their furnaces and released the leashof sand blast, air hose, and gas flame. But fascinating as un
The story of the Pullman car . was a wood-working industry. At one fell strokethe old order changed to the new. The songs of theband-saw and the planer were stilled and in theirstead rose the metallic clamor of steam hammer andturret lathe, and the endless staccato reverberationof an army of riveters. Ponderous machines to bend,twist, or cut a bar or sheet of steel filled the vastworkrooms. An army of steel workers, Titans ofthe past reborn to fulfill a modern destiny, fannedthe flames in their furnaces and released the leashof sand blast, air hose, and gas flame. But fascinating as unquestionably was the workof the patient artisans who inlaid the befloweredEastlake Pullman or the Moorish cars of anotherday, there is equal romance in the product of themodern worker who builds these rolling hostelries [124] Digitized by Microsoft® Z M % ?* % f? ^Jbc^liBP ; i 1 ^ip®^ - f l^ffi . J ft J ? _ V.^/.- . •«.,.. t 7X , ? 9 ^3L Ie^I^W**8 IK3l. hmH n r iF^Kd m mmm>-m 4. i i1* ?MP* f J P*^—*P>. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® HOW THE CARS ARE MADE of steel. Under the high glass roof the tumult ofponderous machines fills the air with one side of one of the main aisles a half dozengreat steel girders, like keels for giant ships, lie onthe floor. These are the mighty box girders, eighty-one feet in length and weighing over nine tons each,which will form the backbone of future each of these girders, or sills, are riveted plates,angles, and steel castings which extend the fulllength of the car and platforms, as well as floorbeams, cross bearers, bolsters, and end sills of pressedsteel. On this foundation the side sills are riveted,steel beams that run the entire length of the car. When this gray mass of steel is finally rivetedtogether with its coverplates, tieplates, and floor-plates, the underframe of the car is completed—analmost indestructible foundation which alone weighs27,365 pounds. On this underframe th
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