. The Street railway journal . ssed sufficiently to bring the floor of the car on alevel with the floor of the store room. The auxiliary stockroom, 81 ft. 6 in. x 60 ft., is used for storing heavy mate-rial, such as reels of wire, insulators, track bolts, spikesand fish plates. white, which assists the lighting from a large skylight inthe roof. The following machines have been installed:Band saw; rip saw; cross-cut saw; combined jig saw andsingle-spindle shaper; universal woodworker; two-spindleshaper; four-head tenoner; mortiser and borer; wood lathe;4-in. X 8-in. molder; 8-in. x 24-in. four-
. The Street railway journal . ssed sufficiently to bring the floor of the car on alevel with the floor of the store room. The auxiliary stockroom, 81 ft. 6 in. x 60 ft., is used for storing heavy mate-rial, such as reels of wire, insulators, track bolts, spikesand fish plates. white, which assists the lighting from a large skylight inthe roof. The following machines have been installed:Band saw; rip saw; cross-cut saw; combined jig saw andsingle-spindle shaper; universal woodworker; two-spindleshaper; four-head tenoner; mortiser and borer; wood lathe;4-in. X 8-in. molder; 8-in. x 24-in. four-cylinder surfacer,and automatic knife grinder. On account of the liberal space allowed for the mill aconvenient arrangement of the machines was possible andno machine interferes with the operation of another evenwhen handling large stock. Carpenters benches and toolcases are provided in one corner of the room. The lumberstock piles are adjoining the through track running intothe mill room and lumber can be unloaded direct from. , H,dr. U C-- Meridian y^i^ Ave. FIG. 5.—GENERAL PLAN OF THE ANDERSON SHOPS OF TflE INDL\NA UNION TRACTION COMPANY There are two stub and one through tracks, already men-tioned, in the cleaning and inspection room. The two stubtracks have pits 60 ft. long. This room is used for clean-ing and inspecting the city and interurban cars cared forregularly at Anderson and for giving all cars which comeinto the shop for overhauling a thorough washing andcleaning. A portable combined compressed air and vacuumcleaning outfit made by the General Compressed AirVacuum Machinery Company, St. Louis, Mo., has beeninstalled for cleaning seat cushions and curtains and anattachment for washing the exteriors of cars. Between the cleaning room and auxiliary stock room, andadjoining the car-building shop, which is along the westside of the building, is the woodworking shop or mill room,60 ft. x 103 ft. 6 in. All of the machines are belt drivenfrom overhead shafting turn
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