. The Street railway journal . company has been usingthis process long enough to become convinced of its superiorityfor its purposes over other methods. BLACKSMITH SHOP Adjoining the paint shop in the rear of-the building is theblacksmith shop, which is 44 ft. 6 ins. deep and 28 ft. wide. Thisdepartment, it will be noticed by reference to the plan, Fig. 2,ir immediately in the rear of the storeroom. A view of theshop is presented in Fig. 7. It is equipped with five forges and3 Bradley 150-II). upright power hammer. This hannner is sup-l>ortcd on a special concrete foundation, 12 ft. s(|., s
. The Street railway journal . company has been usingthis process long enough to become convinced of its superiorityfor its purposes over other methods. BLACKSMITH SHOP Adjoining the paint shop in the rear of-the building is theblacksmith shop, which is 44 ft. 6 ins. deep and 28 ft. wide. Thisdepartment, it will be noticed by reference to the plan, Fig. 2,ir immediately in the rear of the storeroom. A view of theshop is presented in Fig. 7. It is equipped with five forges and3 Bradley 150-II). upright power hammer. This hannner is sup-l>ortcd on a special concrete foundation, 12 ft. s(|., so as to re-lieve Ibc liniMiiiL; of all strains and vibralinn due-lo its opera-tion. Ifjvver is furnished by 20-bp motor for tlie operation 552 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 15. of this hammer, a blower for the forges, and also a chainlesscoal conveyor, which hoists the coal from the basement to theblacksmith shop. The babbitting and soldering furnaces arein this shop, and it has been found to be a very convenient loca-. FIG. 7.—BLACKSMITH SHOP tion, as it confines all the fires to one room, in which specialprecaution has been made for fireproofing. MACHINE SHOP In the arrangement and in the selection of equipment for themachine shop the management was guided largely by the ex-perience it had already gained in the old shops and by ob-servation of the methods employed upon other roads where therequirements were similar to those of the Rochester order to secure ample light this department was assigned thesouthwestern portion of the building, and as there are no ob-structions on this exposure the large room enjoys good light inall parts of it at all times. In the view presented on anotherpage. Fig. i, it will be noted that provision has been made forlighting this room by a large number of windows on the twowalls shown. A workmans bench extends the entire length ofthis wall space, where the usual fitting and finishing and otherwork requiring light hand tools is d
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