. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . new work. Concord will also havea modern shop, with every device forcheapening the cost of work; electrictraveling cranes and motors, and an airplant that will reach all previous effortsin the utilization of air for shop purposes. There is something pathetic in the sacri-fice of any old shop that has been thecradle for the power of a growing road. and these will be missed by many grizzlyold timers who have formed an attach-ment for the old rookeries that time willbe slow in effacing. The Pedrick & Ayer C
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . new work. Concord will also havea modern shop, with every device forcheapening the cost of work; electrictraveling cranes and motors, and an airplant that will reach all previous effortsin the utilization of air for shop purposes. There is something pathetic in the sacri-fice of any old shop that has been thecradle for the power of a growing road. and these will be missed by many grizzlyold timers who have formed an attach-ment for the old rookeries that time willbe slow in effacing. The Pedrick & Ayer Co. have in usein railroad shops 120 of their belted com-pressors—showing that railroad peopleare fast recognizing the fact that air-brakepumps are good enough for a makeshiftfor shop pumps, but not for a regularthing. Watson & Stillman have for some littletime been at work upon a lot of hydraulicmachinery for the new American PulleyWorks, of Philadelphia, which is to manu-facture a new all-sheet-steel pulley, inwhich the hub,. spokes and rims are allmade of thin sheet -m- m Wrt Iron Stripe %aeH
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