Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1895) (14573735908)

Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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om, 34 yet known on Puget Sound—tlte-home ofthe octopii. In the coach shop the steam radiatorswere placed several feet above the floor, asan experiment, probably, for t&ey are allin their old-fashioned places, on the floorin the other shops. All the .shops are liberally lighted with16 candle-power incandescent lamps—money well spent, a sure dividend earner,for men can work with comfort to them-selves and profit to their employers. The blacksmith shop is Sox 190 feet, situ-ated at the extreme south end of theplant. Fig. 4 shows in plan the forges andtools, and how the stacks connect with twoor more forges in groups and join one com-mtm stack before pa.ssing through the roof. A 92 X 12 Armington & Sims drives theshafting to run the bolt headers, a Bradleyhammer and the No. 8 Sturtevant steelblower. This little engine, kept as neat asa piece of silver on the sideboard, wouldgive a twitch at the heartstrings of somepeople who think anything is good enoughfor a blacksmith shop.
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An elevation of this shop in section isnecessan- to clearly show the constructionof the smokestacks, the hoods, both raisedand lowered, and how supported. This isshown in Big. 5. The fan is below floor level a sufficientdistance to bring the center of main blastpipe 24 inches down. Besides the 6,000-pound crane, there areseveral wall cranes not shown in the en-graving. The equipment of labor-savingdevices in this new shop would be a reve- The Pittsburgh & Western carded a carbelonging to the Philadelphia & Readingfor a broken M. C. B. cou))ler. On ac-count of this card, the P. & R. made acharge of 112. so for cost of renewal. TheP. & W. people held that the makers ofthe coupler were selling it for $11, andthat consequently the charge was too high.The P. & R. replied that the charge wasmade according to the M. C. B. Rules ofInterchange. In this they were sustainedbv the Arbitration Committee.