. Electric railway journal . Portland Shops—Interior View of Paint Shop Showing Track Arrangement for Standard and Narrow-Gage Cars The main truck and motor shop adjoins the machineshop and armature room. Each pit in the shop is equippedwith a home-made screw hoist for hoisting car bodies, aswell as a swinging and traveling crane with air hoistattached. All cars brought in for overhauling are takeninto this shop. The body is raised off the trucks with the chine and one Niles 42-in. steel tire lathe. There is also awheel grinder for grinding flanges. All flat spots areground out at the carhouse
. Electric railway journal . Portland Shops—Interior View of Paint Shop Showing Track Arrangement for Standard and Narrow-Gage Cars The main truck and motor shop adjoins the machineshop and armature room. Each pit in the shop is equippedwith a home-made screw hoist for hoisting car bodies, aswell as a swinging and traveling crane with air hoistattached. All cars brought in for overhauling are takeninto this shop. The body is raised off the trucks with the chine and one Niles 42-in. steel tire lathe. There is also awheel grinder for grinding flanges. All flat spots areground out at the carhouses underneath the cars, but itis often found that wheels with chipped flanges can bere-ground when the flanges are deep and then can be usedover Portland Shops—Power Hammers and Down-Draft Forgesin Blacksmith Shop screw hoist and the truck run from under the car withits own motors. The controller for running the motorwhich operates the screw hoist has a double-throw switch,and current can be thrown into a bus line which has tapsalong the side of the pit so that the crew can plug in andrun their trucks out from underneath the car by motors are then taken off and overhauled while two Portland Shops—View in Truck Shop Showing Cranes andAir Hoists for Handling Truck Parts The carpenter shop is situated next to the machine shopand separated from it by a transfer table, as shown in theillustration on page 132. This building is of the same de-sign as the main room in the carpenter shop. All of theshops are equipped with three-rail tracks as shown in theinterior view of the paint shop, so as to accommodate bothstandard and narrow-gage cars. The mill room and car- ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 4. penter .shop,
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