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Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, one track inside the other, as shown in theaccompanying halftones and floor plan. The trackcomprises a 12-in. I-beam suspended by clamps fromthe I-beams which carry the floor above. Each trackhas one Sprague electric hoist and one plain travelerwith a 2-ton chain hoist by means of which themotors are lifted from the floor after they have beenlowered by the crane and moved to any part of theroom as desired. This room has four 12-in. iron pillars which sustainthe floor overhead, and three of these are used as sup-ports for the jibs illustrated in an accompanying sketch.These jibs can be turned under the overhead tracks ina complete circle. Two jibs reach three tracks and onejib reaches two tracks, so that a motor can be loweredfrom almost any part of the track for pick-up by a jib.The motors are overhauled almost entirely with thesejibs, each of which has a traveler and 2-ton Yale &Towne hoist. Although some of the old split-shell type March 21, 1914.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 639
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Third Avenue Motor Shop—The Portion of the Shop Seen by the Foreman from His Office Window 640 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (VOL. XLIII, No. 12. motors are opened under the main telpher tracks, thelatter are used primavily to get the motors in and outand to place them. The sketch of the jibs shows thatthey are fitted with solid wheels on the sides where theweight is taken and that the roller-bearing effect ob-tained, although simple in make-up, permits motorsweighing 2600 lb. to be handled easily.

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  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
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  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:664
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