Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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forty thousand feet at a time. The treatment of oak is somewhatunusual. It is steamed under a pressure of 100 lbs. per square inch.Steam is allowed to enter very slowly, and after having the sapthoroughly coagulated in this way it is removed to the dry house andafter remaining there for a weeks time the moisture has been thor-oughly removed from it. For street railway work all the lumber iscarried through the dry house before being worked up. This is forthe purpose of insuring its absolute freedom from moisture beforegoing into the car. Adjoining these shops, and separated fromthem by a deliverswitch from the railway, are large stock and storage sheds. A little-further down the stream is a building, 60 ft. x 120 ft., devoted to thefoundry. Here gray iron castings and car wheels are made, thecapacity of this department being ten tons per day. The wheel de-partment can make seventy wheels per day, and the capacity of thewheel pits is equal to 350 wheels. The coal and sand for this foun-
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FIG. 2—FRAME OF TWENTY-FIVE FOOT CAR FOR WEST END RAILWAY. dry are delivered to a chute directly alongside of it from the cars bya special track. The cabinet shop, which is a large building two stories high,200 ft. X 42 ft., is fitted up in the lower story with a complete set ofmodern wood working machinery for getting out the material forsteam, passenger, electric or horse car work. There are also con-nected with this department carving and routing machines to savehand work. The carving is largely a hand product and the carvingmachine merely used to save labor in roughing, routing and thegeneral work which requires neither taste nor artistic ability. Theupper part of this shop is devoted to the finer portions of the cabinetwork and the finishing and putting together of the work which isbrought from below by an elevator. From the upper portion of theshop there is a covered bridge to the second floor of the erecting shop.

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