. Railway mechanical engineer . irs, amillwright .^hoj), and the air pump, stoker and injectorrepair shop, the apprentice school room, offices for the assis-tant shop superintendent, the general foreman and the super-visor of shop schedules, and toilet facilities. An unusual feature of the shop structure is the store- house within the main shop liuilding, which occupies 120ft. of the west bay at the south end of the building. It isdesigned for si.\ stories, five of which have been built, andis of reinforced concrete construction. Along the entire length of the west side of the shopbuilding is
. Railway mechanical engineer . irs, amillwright .^hoj), and the air pump, stoker and injectorrepair shop, the apprentice school room, offices for the assis-tant shop superintendent, the general foreman and the super-visor of shop schedules, and toilet facilities. An unusual feature of the shop structure is the store- house within the main shop liuilding, which occupies 120ft. of the west bay at the south end of the building. It isdesigned for si.\ stories, five of which have been built, andis of reinforced concrete construction. Along the entire length of the west side of the shopbuilding is a platform 50 ft. wide, served by a 15-ton halfgantry crane for about four-fifths of its length. Acrossthe south end of the building is a space of the same widthspanned by a 15-ton bridge crane, the surface of which is atground level. EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESOperating over the entire length of the monitor bay thereare one 100-ton Toledo liridge crane, one 100-ton Morganbridge crane and four three-ton Toledo traveling jib cranes. One of the Three-Ton Traveling Jib Cranes, Serving the and Blacksmith Shop operating under the bridge cranes, two on either side of thebay. The east bay is equipped with a 30-ton Toledo bridgecrane and in the inside west bay there is a 15-ton ToledoIjridge crane. In tlie two west bays there are a number ofone and two-ton electrically operated Yale hoists mountedon swinging jibs, about 15 of which eventually will l)cemployed when the shop is fully equipped. There are two 288 June, 1919 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 289 Otis freight elevators used for carrying material betweenthe machine shoj) floor and the balcony, one of which alsoserves the storehouse, and an Otis automatic passenger ele-vator serves the four floors of the storehouse and the mainoffice on the fiftli floor. In addition to the equipment moved from the old shops,the new plant contains 44 new machine tools, practically anentire new spring plant, a new 6,(100-lb. steam hammer,
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