. Electric railway journal . n the paint shop. Abalcony in the paint shop is used to eliminate dust anddirt when painting or varnishing seats, sashes, orother small parts. The sandhouse is equipped to use either wet or drysand and contains stoves, elevators, screens and sand is sacked from the bins and then the sacksare located in a sand car which is spotted near the 350 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 10 incoming cartracks. Each returning crew upon reach-ing the sand car places its quota of sand in the carbefore checking in. This arrangement has proved su-perior to other method
. Electric railway journal . n the paint shop. Abalcony in the paint shop is used to eliminate dust anddirt when painting or varnishing seats, sashes, orother small parts. The sandhouse is equipped to use either wet or drysand and contains stoves, elevators, screens and sand is sacked from the bins and then the sacksare located in a sand car which is spotted near the 350 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 10 incoming cartracks. Each returning crew upon reach-ing the sand car places its quota of sand in the carbefore checking in. This arrangement has proved su-perior to other methods. The main repair shop is equipped with forging ma-chines, 1,100-lb. air hammer, a punching machine, drillpresses, an acetylene outfit, a complete rail bending andcutting outfit, and other standard equipment. Due toits location, the company is forced to be practicallyself-contained with respect to its repairs and has devel-oped a very good repair shop and some ingenious andunique shop kinks from its experiences. It has L_ 1. r Plat Showing Layout of Shops and Carhouses recently reground all the cylinders of the car com-pressors and put in slightly larger pistons with splendidsuccess. A rather unique operation performed by the companywas the use of old rolled-steel wheels and axles formaking brake hangers. The scrap material was cutinto suitable length with the acetylene torch and thendrawn into li-in. round bars. The bars were thenforged in an Ajax forging machine to a ball on eachend, after which the balls were flattened by the hammerand punched to fit the brake-head cone. This method was used when steel was expensive andhangers produced were excellent, but the present prac-tice is to use li-in. round mild steel in connection witha H-in. Ajax forging machine and a 1,100-lb. steamhammer. The hangers are all case hardened after form-ing. Two hangers are used on each brake beam andabout 1,200 are in service. The renewals amount toabout 200 per year on the cars, which are mostly
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