. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and electrical shops are locatedon the southerly side of the car repair and truck shopbuilding. In the air room repairs are made to the aircompressors and air brake equipment and this depart-ment is thoroughly equipped with all modern machinesami tools for the overhauling and rebuilding of theseparts. J here are also a number of gas-heated hot watertanks for cleaning purposes, and gas burners are used formelting and running an insulating compound around thebrush holders of car motors. A moder
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and electrical shops are locatedon the southerly side of the car repair and truck shopbuilding. In the air room repairs are made to the aircompressors and air brake equipment and this depart-ment is thoroughly equipped with all modern machinesami tools for the overhauling and rebuilding of theseparts. J here are also a number of gas-heated hot watertanks for cleaning purposes, and gas burners are used formelting and running an insulating compound around thebrush holders of car motors. A modern up-to-date switch-In with ammeters and switches, controls the testingof the repaired compressors with the minimum delay andelimination of risk to the tester. The electrical shop is completely equipped with the mostmodern apparatus for the complete overhauling and re-building of electric motors and electric control unique feature in this department is the suspension ofa line shaft for driving various machines from bracketson the wall instead of from the roof trusses. This shaft. Babbitt Room Showing Row of Gas-Fired Soft Metal Furnaces is operated by a 30-horsepower motor. There are sixregular gas-fired soldering furnaces with hoods tor re-moving fumes, eight heavy duty gas-fired soldering fur-naces for various soldering jobs and two gas-fired softmetal furnaces, one for soldering and the other for tin-ning. Close by is the department in which repairs aremade to the door operating apparatus, which is servedwith gas-fired cleaning tanks. Two overhead monorailtracks are provided to serve the armature stands and thearmature banding machines. A most modern and completely equipped machine shopi-. provided lor the maintenance of car bodies and trucks.\mong the various machines are noted four turret latheswhich turn out bolts up to 3 inches in diameter. Some60 per cent of the various machines in this shop are op-crated from line shafts, which are driven by three 45-
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