Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ain.It is a splendid application of an oldmechanical principle to new conditions,and will no doubt receive considerableattention from the electrical fraternity.This coupling is of cast steel and is shownfor the purpose of presenting its balancingfeatures, the latter being one of the im-portant requisites for motor purposes ow-ing to the high speeds always demanded. The list of tools herewith will be inter-esting to those who have not had to dowith electric drives. To these the inform-ation will be specially valuable as showingwhat is actually required for machine toolsfound in every railroad shop. It is seenthat only the larger capacity tools havean individual drive. Many of the smallertools obtain power from a common counterwhich is motor driven. The electricity is furnished by a directconnected lOO-kilowatt engine running at250 revolutions per minute. In additionto these another of 62j4-kiIowatt capacityis in reserve. These engines are situatedin the power house, which also contains
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February, 190J. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOilVK ENGINEEKJNG 65 an Ingersoll-Sergeant compressor of a ca-pacity of 460 cubic feet of free air permiiuitc. There is a storage capacity for275,000 cubic inches of air in this building,and tanks of three times this capacity aredistributed thro\iKhout the various shops,Ihe air being used at 90 pounds per squareinch. The large capacity of comprc-sorand tanks bearing the best of evidenceof the wide use of compressed air tools..Ml water and steam pipes of the plantare returned to the power house, in whichis a Berryman Feed Water Heater which to the highly volatile character of the oil,but it is forced up by a small pump. Thereare few better arranged oil-houses thanthis. While the car and paint shops are underone roof and look like one shop exteriorly,they are just as separate and distinct in-side as though miles apart. The wood-working shop comes first on viewing theplan, and it has a complement of the bestwood-working tools possible to buy.These tools a

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