Salt Lake Herald | 1899-07-30 | Page 2 | Short Line Shops Busy

SHORT LINE SHOPS BUSY Capacity Taxed to the Utmost By Repair Re-pair Work These are bus days In the O S L machine shops Repairs and Improvements Improve-ments to locomotives keep the ca pacity ot the foundry forge and ma chine shops taxed to the utmost and give constant employment to several hundred skilled machinists The O S L engineer cling to the single cylinder locomotive a agaInst the compound for mountaIn climbing The crosshead on the compound Is a bUlky bit of Iron mongeo and weIghs about 500 pounds more than the corresponding taaSe t tnt single I racks the engIne so badly that the compounds are reported ag spending most of their time In the locomotive hospital There are half a dozen dismantled monsters on the ways at present and scattered around are the thousand nail one parts that go to make up the complete eight drivIng wheel engine and the system of rCalr and construction Is so well arranged that a wheezy decrepit look lag engine can b run into the shops dIsmantle refitted and made a good as new In two wee tme