. American engineer and railroad journal . r steel car work and arein addition to the hand hammer, cold chisels, wrenches and driftswith which each man is furnished. As may be seen, some of thetools are of a very special nature and are only used occasionally,so that it is not necessary to have more than two or three ofthem for several gangs. In other cases, such for instance aspneumatic hammers, it would be necessary to provide one forevery four or five men in a steel car gang. Inasmuch as the number of steel cars in the repair yard variesgreatly, so that often there is not enough work to keep
. American engineer and railroad journal . r steel car work and arein addition to the hand hammer, cold chisels, wrenches and driftswith which each man is furnished. As may be seen, some of thetools are of a very special nature and are only used occasionally,so that it is not necessary to have more than two or three ofthem for several gangs. In other cases, such for instance aspneumatic hammers, it would be necessary to provide one forevery four or five men in a steel car gang. Inasmuch as the number of steel cars in the repair yard variesgreatly, so that often there is not enough work to keep more thanone or two gangs engaged, while at other times there may besufficient to keep several gangs going, it is impossible to makean estimate as to just what the tools for this work would costper man, or per gang, but it is safe to say that a gang of fiveor six men could be very fully equipped with the necessary toolsfor less than $500. In addition to the tools mentioned above there are several 96 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
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