. Railway mechanical engineer . Thirty-fourbroken bars were discovered in this way in two months atone terminal, forty-two at another in one month and seventy-six at another in ten days. *From a paper on Car Department Problems presented by E. E. Griest,master mechanic, Pennsylvania Lines, Ft. Wayne, Ind., at the GeneralForemens Convention. II iigoii for Hauling Couplers.—It is necessary in even-car department to transport considerable material from pointto point in the repair yard. Any simple device whichreduces the time and labor in handling material is worthyof consideration. In Fig. 4 is s
. Railway mechanical engineer . Thirty-fourbroken bars were discovered in this way in two months atone terminal, forty-two at another in one month and seventy-six at another in ten days. *From a paper on Car Department Problems presented by E. E. Griest,master mechanic, Pennsylvania Lines, Ft. Wayne, Ind., at the GeneralForemens Convention. II iigoii for Hauling Couplers.—It is necessary in even-car department to transport considerable material from pointto point in the repair yard. Any simple device whichreduces the time and labor in handling material is worthyof consideration. In Fig. 4 is shown a truck designedfor readily handling couplers. The wagon is tiltedforward until the rear hook engages the cored hole at theend of the coupler shank. When the truck is again broughtto a horizontal position, the coupler swings high enough offthe ground to clear objects 6 in. high. With this arrange-ment couplers can be readily loaded, transported and un-loaded by one man. Reclaiming Car Brasses.—The common method of re-. Planer Tool \(/f//f/f////MltltlZ& F^W/JW^WWWCTW c^^^s
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