"A" ERECTING SHOP
    To facilitate the building and repair of locomotives in this
shop, such parts as frames, angle irons, cylinders, motion, etc.,
are prepared in the Fitting Shops and handed over practically
ready for use to the erectors.

    The mechanical equipment in the original part of the Erecting
Shop includes two electric traversing tables and four overhead
cranes of fifty tons capacity each, having electric travelling and
hydraulic lifting power. One section consists of an assembly
dump, boilers and ashpans in preparation, and pare Machine
Shop work, the remainder, containing 36 pits, being entirely used
for engine repairs. There is also an electric traversing table for
taking engines, etc., in and out of the shop.

    The new portion was completed in z9z x for dealing with the
largest engines. In this there are sixty pits, each Do ft. long,
which are served by an electric traverser, and there are four over-
head electric cranes, each capable of lifting zoo tons with a span of
75 ft. This new portion, in addition to dealing with the repair
of heavier and longer engines and rail motor cars, accommodates
the pits for the erection of new engines. The equipment for
repairing is such that about 400 engines of large type can be dealt
with yearly.