. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ches in diameter, placed side by sideacross a pit of the car shop, and restingon a foundation of 6 x 6-inch oak the top end of pistons is a 4 x 8-inchoak block, 4 feet 7 inches long, which 14 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. forms a part ot the flooring over pit wlienthe pistons are down, and is raised up tothe spring plarik of truck when compres-sing the springs. Two other oak blocks, 4x6 inches,having /^ x 2;4-inch U-shaped straps se-cured to them, are used in this combina-tion; these blocks being pla
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ches in diameter, placed side by sideacross a pit of the car shop, and restingon a foundation of 6 x 6-inch oak the top end of pistons is a 4 x 8-inchoak block, 4 feet 7 inches long, which 14 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. forms a part ot the flooring over pit wlienthe pistons are down, and is raised up tothe spring plarik of truck when compres-sing the springs. Two other oak blocks, 4x6 inches,having /^ x 2;4-inch U-shaped straps se-cured to them, are used in this combina-tion; these blocks being placed on top ofthe truck bolster when the straps passdown, and engage with like straps pro-vided with jaws and pins, rising from thefoundation blocks. This whole thing being a permanentfixture, the truck to be operated on isplaced over the cylinders, the upperblocks are put in their proper position,and the straps are connected, as shownin sketch, ready to do business. This view shows the bolster, the tran-soms and the spring plank in section; cut-ting out all other parts of the truck not. Lor M, .,,« W. Y. TRUCK SIUIXG COMPRESSOR. involved in action with the subject inhand. The results accomplished by this home-made squeezer, as stated above, are notdress parade figures, but are always ob-tained without preparation. They are ar-ranging to build one of these squeezerson a truck of its own and running on anarrow track in a pit. then they will movethe tool to the truck intead of the truckto the tool. LEAD-LINED BRASSES. The road has recently gone back to themanufacture of their own journal brasses;these are lined with lead or babbitt. Thesoft metal is poured on a vertical former,as usual, but the burr of soft metal at theends is cut off and trued up very nicely ona revolving cutter, like a milling tool,mounted on the arbor of an old lathe,and projecting through an iron table; itis quicker and better than chipping byhand. SOLID ROD All new rods have the oil cups
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