. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . th shop is one of the mostinteresting in the plant. Here in the dusk,illumined by the glare of the furnaces,grimy men swing their sledges and, to themerry music of the hammer and anvil, oldtools are made into new ones, switchchains and car and brake chains repaired,and rusty and discarded iron worked intonew shapes of usefulness. The saw mill and bolt shop is anotherinteresting place. Old wood, like oldiron, can be made over into useful equip-ment as good as new. Old ties, pilingbutts, culls or obsolete sizes, cuttings frombridge jobs, the sides of dis
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . th shop is one of the mostinteresting in the plant. Here in the dusk,illumined by the glare of the furnaces,grimy men swing their sledges and, to themerry music of the hammer and anvil, oldtools are made into new ones, switchchains and car and brake chains repaired,and rusty and discarded iron worked intonew shapes of usefulness. The saw mill and bolt shop is anotherinteresting place. Old wood, like oldiron, can be made over into useful equip-ment as good as new. Old ties, pilingbutts, culls or obsolete sizes, cuttings frombridge jobs, the sides of dismantled cars—all are put to some useful out of twenty-four piling buttswere made forty-eight jack levers, 1023punch handles and sixty-four brakeclubs. Other things made of waste woodare the wood fillers of Murphy roof sad-dles, the handles of various tools, flagsticks, surveyors stakes and tie the wood that cannot be utilized inanv other way is burned into charcoal! 12 THE BALTLMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE. AT THIS TABLE BRAKE-BEAMS ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR EQUIPMENT, WHICH IS LATERREPLACED WITH NEW OR RECLAIMED PARTS
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