. Electric railway journal . containing in general two outlets one of these is a fixed lamp and in the other a recep-tacle for a portable lamp. The Machine Shop Is Well Furnished The machine shop contains the following tools, group-driven from a 20-hp., 550-volt, direct-current motormounted on the ceiling: One 18-in. Whitcomb enginelathe; one 12-in. American No. 1 jointer; one Nortonmodel D double, bench-type, 12-in. grinder; one Hoefer23-in. upright drill; one 14-in. No. 3 American circularsaw; one 6-in. x 6-in. Economy No. 2 hacksaw; one Fay& Egan post borer. The equipment also inclu
. Electric railway journal . containing in general two outlets one of these is a fixed lamp and in the other a recep-tacle for a portable lamp. The Machine Shop Is Well Furnished The machine shop contains the following tools, group-driven from a 20-hp., 550-volt, direct-current motormounted on the ceiling: One 18-in. Whitcomb enginelathe; one 12-in. American No. 1 jointer; one Nortonmodel D double, bench-type, 12-in. grinder; one Hoefer23-in. upright drill; one 14-in. No. 3 American circularsaw; one 6-in. x 6-in. Economy No. 2 hacksaw; one Fay& Egan post borer. The equipment also includes aBuffalo No. 09D forge driven by a 110-volt EmersonVs-hp. motor, and two Universal electric drills. All of the feeder circuits in the carhouse yard arefed through a bank of three General Electric circuitbreakers mounted on the wall of the carhouse pitroom,so that the entire yard or a section of it can be cut offat the convenience of the operating force. The feedercircuits are brought into the carhouse in conduit. The. NEW SPRINGFIELD CARHOUSE—MACHINE SHOP NEW SPRINGFIELD CARHOUSE OIL PUMPS August 25, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 303 yard is to be lighted by twelve 1000-cp. Novalux pen-dant-type refractor units. On the west wall of the building a 1-ton Spraguehoist with 10-ft. revolving boom is installed to facilitatehandling wheels from cars to the receiving room in thebasement. Wheels are lowered through a hatch to astorage room, fromwhich a track leads atright angles to the pittracks and under fourof the latter, so thatquick transfers can bemade of wheels be-tween cars and stock. Oil is stored in tanksaggregating 1965 in a fireproofroom in the basement,provision being madefor keeping signal,kerosene, compressorand motor oil con-stantly on hand. Acradle is provided forholding barrels whiledischarging into con-tainers. The latter arepiped to a battery offour Wayne pumps lo-cated in an oilroom ad-joining the machineshop, the pumps beingof the crank-operated
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