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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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house on the north side ofthe river. Last year the plant was remodeled and the capacitydoubled, a car wheel borer, straightening machine, lathes, woodworking tools and smaller tools being installed. At Taggart and Charles Sts., .MIcghcny, there is also a smallshop with capacity to make the repairs for the electrical equipmentof 60 or 70 cars. There arc two other small shops at the car houseswhich it is expected will be abandoned and the equipment removedto the larger plants. The company has 16 car houses, the largest being that at Home-wood in conjunction with the Homewood shops, where the oper-ating building has a capacity for 50 cars (30-ft. cars) and thestorage building for 120 cars, with yard tracks for 125 cars addi-tional. Tlicre is now under construction at McKecs Rocks a car houseto be used for storage purposes the essential features of which areshown in the accompanying line drawings. The building is 451 ft.long! by 61 ft. 6 in. wide; the side walls and rear end walls are of
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including the details of a number of special machines and deviceswhich had been designed by the general foreman, Mr. John Rogan.During the last year some new tools have been added at this plantincluding a power hammer, punch and shears, five lathes, a 10-ft.planer, an axle sttaightening machine, and an air compressing plantfurnished by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., drill presses, twoBryan car dismantlers, eight coil winding machines, and smalltools. The air compressor was installed to supply air to a numberof hoists which handle lighter pieces such as armatures. Forheavy lifting the shop has a 10-ton Pawling & Harnischfeger crane. A new building 125x48 ft. was built this winter for the coilmaking and armature winding department. At one end of thisroom is a space 12x48 ft. for the dipping room and armature oven.This oven differs from the usual construction in having the heat-ing coils placed on the floor and covered by an iron grating; thedoors arc

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