. American engineer and railroad journal . re to the rivet. The work isbest done by a steady pressure and not by a blow or sudden shock,and herein the hydraulic ram excels. It is also free from the re-bound or recoil which must occur when an elastic fluid is em-ployed to drive the plunger. Boilers riveted by hydraulic powerhave given much better records under high pressures than havebeen obtained by other methods. It is expensive to instala special hydraulic plant in railroad shops for thiswork, but it will undoubtedly pay to do so, for what isgood for high pressures must also show on the righ
. American engineer and railroad journal . re to the rivet. The work isbest done by a steady pressure and not by a blow or sudden shock,and herein the hydraulic ram excels. It is also free from the re-bound or recoil which must occur when an elastic fluid is em-ployed to drive the plunger. Boilers riveted by hydraulic powerhave given much better records under high pressures than havebeen obtained by other methods. It is expensive to instala special hydraulic plant in railroad shops for thiswork, but it will undoubtedly pay to do so, for what isgood for high pressures must also show on the right side of therepair accounts for lower pressures. The Chicago & Northwest-ern Railway has recently installed one of the best hydraulicplants now in use on locomotive work in this country, and thefact is worthy of wide notice. The accompanying engravingsillustrate the general arrangement of the machinery, and they arepresented through the courtesy of Mr. Robert Quayle, Superin-tendent of Motive Power of the road. The plant was recently. Tower and Hoist for Hydraulic Rivetinc Plant, and the comfort and convenience of the train crews, as wellas durability of construction, have been considered by the de-signer. Hydraulic Riveting Plant—Chicago & North-WesternRailway. The use of higher pressures in locomotive boilers has forced theconclusion that the riveting of boiler joints must be attendedto with the greatest care in order to prevent troubles which werenot present with or at least not important in theearlier work withcomparatively low pressures. The question of what power to use inspected by an officer of one of the prominent locomotive-build-ing firms and the only criticism offered was in the form of alament that the plant was not in his shops instead of in a railroadrepair shop. This is enough to say to show that the design, ar-rangement and construction of the apparatus is satisfactory. The specifications under which the machinery was built re-quired a 12-foot gap in the riv
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