. American engineer and railroad journal . ng is shown an in-teresting variable-speed motor-drive upon a milling machinebuilt by the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company. The motor,a type N multiple-voltage Bullock motor, is mounted upon abracket at the rear of the headstock and is geared direct tothe spindle. handling 2,500 cars per day. The plant is at Ashtabula, arrangement consists of three long tracks holding 30,33 and 46 cars, two short tracks used for heavy repairs holding12 cars each and one short track holding 14 cars for loadingand unloading material. The short tracks are loc
. American engineer and railroad journal . ng is shown an in-teresting variable-speed motor-drive upon a milling machinebuilt by the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company. The motor,a type N multiple-voltage Bullock motor, is mounted upon abracket at the rear of the headstock and is geared direct tothe spindle. handling 2,500 cars per day. The plant is at Ashtabula, arrangement consists of three long tracks holding 30,33 and 46 cars, two short tracks used for heavy repairs holding12 cars each and one short track holding 14 cars for loadingand unloading material. The short tracks are located betweenthe long tracks and each end of the building. There is alsocentrally located between the long tracks a building 216 and 26 ft. wide, a shed 100 ft. long and 16 ft. wide, whichis used for storing manufaitured material such as couplers,bolsters, end sills and draft limbers, a scrap bin 50 ft. long and14 ft. wide, also a platform tor storing wheels; two buildings60 ft. long, 9 ft. wide and 7 ft. high, located south of the. IDEAL SMALL CAR REPAIR SHOP. Mr. G. N. Dow, master car builder of the Lake Shore &Michigan Southern Railway at Cleveland, presented before theMaster Car Builders Association a description of what heconsidered an ideal arrangement for a repair shop for a yard BELTED COUNTERSHAFT DRIVE UPON 30-lN. GEAKED DRAW-CUT SH.\PER.—MORTON MANUFACTURlXti COMPANY. CONSTANT-SPEED MOTOR. GENEBAX ELECTRIC COMPANY. tracks and in the center of the plant. One is used as a mess-room, being equipped with lockers for mens clothes, two longsinks and benches; the other building is used for storing themens tools and is equipped with shelves or racks. Parallelwith each long track and between the short ones there is anIS-in. gauge track equipped with low four-wheel cars used fordistributing material, tools and wheels. The general fore-mans office is located in the southeast corner of the entire plant is equipped with air, using IVi-in. pipe hav-ing conne
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