Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
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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attern loft and for putting the rope netting in fenders. The armature room, occupying a space of 140 x 40 ft., is a verybusy place at present owing to approach of the open car season.Some 300 W. P. 50 armatures are being changed from 13-turn to 9-tiini machines with a heavier size wire. The shafts on these re-wound McCAllE DOUBLE SPINDLE LATHE. swung and any work necessary to the axle or wheels is easily donewithout the necessity of removing the wheels. The upper spindlesare very convenient for turning out the older types of motors forthe large size axles that are now coming into use. Next to themachine shop is the wheel room, equipped with a vertical boringmill, hydraulic wheel press and axle straightener. This room alsocontains the electric furnace used for heating the i^-^-in. iron pipethat forms three sides of the standard fender. These pipes, 15 ft.long, are run into one end of the furnace, which is 16 ft. long, theproper sections heated, the pipe taken out of the opposite end of
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MACHINE SHOPS-BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT CO. armatures are being changed on the commutator end so that thebearing surface is now z-)-^ x 6 in. in place of 3^2 x 3 in. In con-nection with this alteration an iron sleeve babbitted bearing with adust cap screwed on the end with a taper thread, is used. A numberof Type B. Curtis armatures are being changed from four to sixturns. The machine shop and wheel fitting room are also inthe framebuilding, the former occupying a space 110x40 ft., and the latter Hie heater, and laid on a suitable form, and then bent to shape withrollers connected by chains to a countershaft with tight and loosepulleys. This countershaft is set in suitable pillow blocks bolted toyellow pine timbers set in the concrete floor. Old motor brushesand electric light carbons are used in this furnace. « » »The law regarding the use of fenders and appliances for pro-tecting life goes into eflfect in California July ist. 344 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. IX, No. s LACONIA N. H.)

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