. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . here being eleven air tanks located at variouspoints for supplying air. By having these tanks locatedat various points a much better supplv of air is providedthan would be the case if only one large tank was used. War the car repair section there are a large number ofA frames and racks which are used each season to con-vert 250 flat cars into sugar-beet cars, which are used eachyear at various points on the coast division. The workof converting the flat cars begins in the early part of Junean
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . here being eleven air tanks located at variouspoints for supplying air. By having these tanks locatedat various points a much better supplv of air is providedthan would be the case if only one large tank was used. War the car repair section there are a large number ofA frames and racks which are used each season to con-vert 250 flat cars into sugar-beet cars, which are used eachyear at various points on the coast division. The workof converting the flat cars begins in the early part of Juneand they are dismantled in February after the beet seasonis over. Most of the A frames and racks were con-structed at the Bay Shore shops. They are built of Ore-gon fir and are designed to carry 50 tons of beets. Asteam crane with specially made equalizer and chain slingon each end is used in handling them. The special equal-izer and spring makes it possible to do this without (lam-aging them. In the forge shop there is equipment for making allkinds of repairs on locomotives. While the department is. Southern Pacific Companys Bay Shore Shops—Transfer Table inForeground not equipped to make new frames complete, they canmake sections of frames which are taken to the engineand welded on. There are two forging furnaces, both being oil burners,which were built in the shop by the shop foreman fromscrap. One is 68 in. by 32 in. by 30 in. The other is 7ft. long, 4 ft. wide and 3 ft. 6 in. high. A case hardening furnace and a tool steel hardeningfurnace were also made from scrap iron. The former is7 ft. long, 2 ft. 6 in. wide and _ ft. high. The tool steelhardening furnace is 33 in. by 34 in. This is a specialfurnace and is used principally in hardening and temper-ing high speed carbon and tool steel, many of the toolsbeing made in the shop. There are two self supporting cranes in the center ofthe forge shop, each crane being of four tons capacity,one serving the large furnace and the o
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