. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ^ i i A Tool for Turning Flanges When Under the Engine. Editors : The question was asked in your papersome weeks ago, if there was anyone whohad turned tires under the engines; willsay that Mr. William Kelh, master me-chanic of Cascade division of the Great. Northern, at Spokane, used the device asshown in sketch for relieving sharp flanges,and it worked very good. I was round-house foreman for him for some time atSpokane, and used it on the large consoli-dated engines, class 38, on that road. Thisclass
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ^ i i A Tool for Turning Flanges When Under the Engine. Editors : The question was asked in your papersome weeks ago, if there was anyone whohad turned tires under the engines; willsay that Mr. William Kelh, master me-chanic of Cascade division of the Great. Northern, at Spokane, used the device asshown in sketch for relieving sharp flanges,and it worked very good. I was round-house foreman for him for some time atSpokane, and used it on the large consoli-dated engines, class 38, on that road. Thisclass of enginesMs used on the switch-back,on the Cascade range, and the tires wearvery fast on the flanges, due to the sharpcurves, and as the rigid wheel base of thisclass is 15 feet 6 inches, and backing asmuch as going ahead, the back flanges cutfast in drj- weather.^ During the wintermonths, when therail |is moist, they wearlonger. In order to make them safe torun, when theflange was worn to ^ inchthick, he used this tool to form up the flange, which it did well, and in a veryshort time, by selecting a good, level andstraight piece of track, and clamping thetool on the main frame, as shown in Fig. I,using a small jack to feed it on the tirewith. We have formed up a pair of tires intwo hours time ; in doing this would makethe engine run for
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