. Electric railway review . floor. Shovels, brooms andheavy tools are stored upon one of these and incandescentlamps in boxes on the other. The company uses 4-inch trolley wheels with Newell bush-ings and secures an average life of about miles. Thewheels weigh about three i)ounds when new and pounds when scrapped. Bar iron for the blacksmith shopis stored in this department on a rack five tiers high and 14 feet long. Excellent lighting of the storeroom is provided byskylights of ribbed glass. Machine main machine shoj), ,S0 feet 4 inches long by Tji) feet 7inch
. Electric railway review . floor. Shovels, brooms andheavy tools are stored upon one of these and incandescentlamps in boxes on the other. The company uses 4-inch trolley wheels with Newell bush-ings and secures an average life of about miles. Thewheels weigh about three i)ounds when new and pounds when scrapped. Bar iron for the blacksmith shopis stored in this department on a rack five tiers high and 14 feet long. Excellent lighting of the storeroom is provided byskylights of ribbed glass. Machine main machine shoj), ,S0 feet 4 inches long by Tji) feet 7inches wide, is unusually well jirovided with tools for so smalla road. Each of the two pit tracks is served by a radial hoist,which facilitates swinging work from the track to the adjacenttools. All the power-operated machine tools in the room aredriven from a single line shaft by a 10-horsepower three-phaser).50-volt 60-cycle General Electric induction motor, nioimtedoverhead. This motor is provided with a starting resistance. Bangor Railway Shops—Standard Wheel and Axle. in the rotor circuit, and to enable it to be started from thefloor a pair of levers are installed to connect the resistanceshort-circuiting handle to be operated without climljing to themotor platform. The principal tools operated are a 42-inch Xiles driving-wheel lathe, used for turning steel tires and equipjied withdouble tool posts; a 20-inch Flather engine lathe: an 18-inchPrentice Bros, drill press; a H-i-inch Reliance tapping andthreading machine; a 36-inch vertical Niles-Bement car wheel
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