Identifier: reviewofpeoriaea00hans (find matches)
Title: Review of the Peoria and Eastern Railway shops at Urbana, Ill.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hanstein, Carl Menelaus Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Chicago Railway Company
Subjects: Peoria and Eastern Railway Railroad repair shops Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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exhaust duct in whichis set a fan operated by a large sized, electric motor mounted ian extensive platform in the center of the room. The shavingsare carried to a bin in the boiler room, and there are used tostart, a fresh fire after cleaning out an old one. The iron work in connection with cars and coaches isalso done in this apartment, and is done on the following ma-chines* 1 holt threading machine, 2 lathes, 1 wheel lathe and drill,1 wheel press. Cab Room. To the north of the Mill Room and east of the engine room is a department marked on plan on page as Cah Shop. This is a division of the Mill Room or rather the Coach Shop,it is a carpenter shop where the cahs are built and rehuiltjin fact any wood work such as fenders etc. This building re-ceives heat from the heater in the engine room, and is lightednaturally by north lights of the style in vogue and artifici-ally by incandescent lights. The work being done entirely byhanri, there is no power, and all the tools are hand tools.
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23 COAC?I ROCT~. To the north of the Mill Roofri, under the same roof, and separated by the fire wall before referred to. isthe Coach Room. A plan of this room is shown on page: tS whichis a heating plan, and gives the heating plant, positionof the furniture, steam pipes, switch box etc. The ductsare of galvanized iron. The lighting, both artificial and natural of thisand the adjoining paint shops is done in the same manner asin the departments already described. Six tracks lead intothe coach room from the yards to the east of the building,covering the entire floor area. The more substantial gradeof car work, viz; that on passenger, express, baggage cars,and cabooses is done here. The freight cars are built in theyards in the southwest section of the grounds. The furniture of the Coach Room consists of car-penters benches placed wherever needed. There are sometwenty-five of them ranged along the north, west and southwalls as shown in the plan. Several glue tanks are provided,and in th

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