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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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hop is imder the management ofMr. Lynch, who is constant!v making improvements andadding labor saving devices. Our illustration, furnished bv the Paige Iron Works,represents a part of the shop. In the foreground is anemery wheel for grinding flattened car wheels. The axle ing, and to s\\ iiig them around U> the lathe at the rear ortransfer them from the track to the traveling crane over-head. On this lathe a hammered steel shaft is bored out andcut off with proper dimensions for the motor pinions. Theteeth are then cut on a planer from which the head stock hasbeen removed and a special device fitted for holding thecutter. In this way 6 pinions or 10 gears can be cut at onetime. Whenever it is necessary to take out the a.xles and wheelsthe car is run on a track over the pits and a removable pieceof track is taken out. The wheels are let down on a truckwhich runs along an 18-inch tramway on the floor of the pit. The whole shop is conducted in an able manner and is amodel of its kind.
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WHEEL GRINDER—NORTH CHICAGO STREET RAILWAY SHOPS. and wheels, as shown, are removed from the truck, but thisis unnecessary for the operation of the machine. A car istransferred to the track, jacked up, the axle placed in thecentres, the gear case removed and the pinion of the grind-ing machine thrown in the motor gear as indicated. Thetwo cup shaped emery wheels are adjusted by a scre^vto the proper height and so as to slightly cone the tread ofthe wheels, then operations begin. A large belt drives ajack shaft under the floor which runs the vertical shaftsbearing the emery wheels at 850 r. p. m. The speed of thepinion is such that the wheels are turned around about fivetimes a minute. The machine requires from i to 10 hoursto put a set of flat wheels in proper condition. The two curved pipes in the back ground of the cut areused as cranes to hold armatures or other parts needing turn- WILL NOT USE CONDUCTORS. A few months ago we published a list of conductorlessroads. In most cases

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