. The Street railway journal . re tested against each other and the G. and Westinghouse No. 3. A chuck coupling is pro- tures are raised and lowered into the fields by an air hoist,which is on an overhead track, so that they can be movedeasily from one end of the shops to the other. August 4, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 705 The method of boring out shells employed by the NorthJersey Company is to mount a chuck, shown in Fig. 4,proper size chucking pieces being used for each style ofshell, on the carriage of a lathe. The boring tool is fedinto the shell and the babbit bored with one cu
. The Street railway journal . re tested against each other and the G. and Westinghouse No. 3. A chuck coupling is pro- tures are raised and lowered into the fields by an air hoist,which is on an overhead track, so that they can be movedeasily from one end of the shops to the other. August 4, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 705 The method of boring out shells employed by the NorthJersey Company is to mount a chuck, shown in Fig. 4,proper size chucking pieces being used for each style ofshell, on the carriage of a lathe. The boring tool is fedinto the shell and the babbit bored with one cut to size. The oilways are cut by a pneumatic tool, as shown inFig. 5. One man tends to both operations, cutting oil- The Milwaukee Carnival The possibilities in the way of electrical decoration andillumination in street parades afforded by the overheadwires of a trolley road have been proved in several cities,particularly in New ( )rleans, and views of the floats usedin the Mardi Gras processions in that city last winter were. FIGS. 7 AND PLOW, NORTH JERSEY STREET RAILWAY CO. ways while the boring tool is being automatically fedthrough the shell. The car-body hoist, as shown in Fig. 6, has been de-scribed in a previous issue of this paper, but the workingdimensions are given, so that duplicates can be made moreeasily, if desired. This hoist consists of an old railwaymotor belted to a shaft carrying a worm, the gear of whichmeshes into the worm and turns a shaft provided with aright and left-hand screw thread. To the nuts which run onthis thread are attached the hoisting cables, which passover the sheaves at the four corners of the hoisting device,and drop to the floor below where the repair pits are lo-cated. Two stringers are placed under the car body, and tothese stringers the cables aie attached. The motor is thenstarted up and the car body raised out of the way of thetruck. The hoist shown, Fig. 6, can raise with ease adouble-truck body weighing 18,000 lbs. The sno
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