. The street railway review . s furnishing steam at 100 lbs. pressure. The feed waterpasses through Hoppes and Excelsior feed water heaters beforebeing pumped into the boilers. The engines comprise one loo-h. automatic speed engine, one 300-h. p. Hamilton Corliss, one300 and one 3S0-h. p. Sioux City Corliss. The car barns and shops are combined in one brick building 130ft. long, the shop occupying a space ft. The facilities forrepairs and construction work are unusually good for so small aroad. All the frogs and switches are made in the shops, the Bry-ant cold metal saw, made by
. The street railway review . s furnishing steam at 100 lbs. pressure. The feed waterpasses through Hoppes and Excelsior feed water heaters beforebeing pumped into the boilers. The engines comprise one loo-h. automatic speed engine, one 300-h. p. Hamilton Corliss, one300 and one 3S0-h. p. Sioux City Corliss. The car barns and shops are combined in one brick building 130ft. long, the shop occupying a space ft. The facilities forrepairs and construction work are unusually good for so small aroad. All the frogs and switches are made in the shops, the Bry-ant cold metal saw, made by the Q & C Company, being used forthis purpose. A Shafer wheel press of 125 tons capacity, a McCabedouble lathe, with 24 and 40-in. clutch, and a Barnes 30-in. backgeared drill press are the other large tools in the shop. A Buffaloforge furnishes air for the blacksmith shop. The next three illus-trations are views of the repair shop in the car barn. In Fig. 4 isshown a motor car truck over the pit for repairs. The armature. FIG. BAKING OVEN. from one of the motors is being lifted from the case. The machinetools and wheel press are illustrated in Figs, s and 6. General Superintendent Bendure has constructed an armaturebaking oven which is simple and inexpensive in construction, butserves the purpose very well. The end and side views of the in-terior of the oven give a good idea of its construction. The ovenconsists of a box in which one of the car motors was shipped, lined ^tM-S^giilv\^9\&vleW 39 with tin and about i in. thickness o( asbestos between the wood andtin. TIic box is 17 in. wide, 17 in. deep and 3 ft. 3 in. hjng inside. Tlic armature rests on two end bearings. On each of the woodenlihjcks is a five-lanip circuit, and these furnish the heat for the arinalure is in place the oven is closed so that it is prac-tically air tight and all the incandescent lamps arc turned the interior of the box is thoroughly heated one circuit is cutout, the
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