. Railway mechanical engineer . stripping shop. The rods are thencleaned and trucked into the rod shop, where they are stampedfor identification and examined for any defects. It is astanding practice on this road to anneal all rods when anengine goes through the shops, so after all the brasses andbushings have been removed, the rods are trucked to a largeannealing furnace located in the boiler shop, which alsoadjoins the rod shop. .\fter being annealed the rods are brought back to therod shop for repairs. If a rod brass strap is found to beworn above the standard size, it is taken to the black
. Railway mechanical engineer . stripping shop. The rods are thencleaned and trucked into the rod shop, where they are stampedfor identification and examined for any defects. It is astanding practice on this road to anneal all rods when anengine goes through the shops, so after all the brasses andbushings have been removed, the rods are trucked to a largeannealing furnace located in the boiler shop, which alsoadjoins the rod shop. .\fter being annealed the rods are brought back to therod shop for repairs. If a rod brass strap is found to beworn above the standard size, it is taken to the blacksmithshop and closed just enough so that it can be machined againto the standard dimensions. This practice always keeps thestraps to a standard opening, so that when a brass is to bereplaced outside the main shop, a new one can be readilyobtained through the storehouse properly machined andpractically ready to apply. This is a great help at small ^ ■v.\\\\\SV\\\\\N\\\\\\\\\\\\\V\V\V\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^ CZ] -768-Arrangement of Machine Tools for Rod V^ork at the Dale Street, St. Paul. Shops of the Great Northern of these machinists supervises the work and is called theleading hand. These shops turn out an average of iilocomotives per month, and this gang handles the rods forall of them. The following machines are located in the rod shop: OneNewton 2-spindle rod boring machine, one 20-in. by 2 emery wheel, one 42-in. Niles vertical boring millwith two heads on the cross rail, one 26-in. Morton drawcut shaper, one 2-in. by 24-in. Jones & Lamson turretlathe, one column shaper, one 4-spindle drill press, • Awarded third prize in ttie Rod Job Competition wliicb clo?ed May 1. roundhouses, which have not got the machine roads just fit the brasses to suit the straps ir-respective of whether the strap fit is worn to larger than thestandard dimensions. In this case, when a brass is changed,it is often found necessary to insert
Size: 1972px × 1268px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectrailroadengineering
