Connecticut western news., 1873-06-20


 moments work adjusting belt or gear, ss also is arranged blaming machine, huge circular saw, which we must acknowl- edge is an equal for the one at the mill in Ashley Falls, concerning which we have alluded in THE NEWS recently. Thus it is as we said above, moments work adjust ing belt or gear will set buzzing any or all of the machines mentioned, and which are compelled 10 move along pretty lively to keep pace with the large water wheel ID the little apartment at the rear, and which will whittle up timber into car shape in pretty quick time. At the east end of this long car building establishment is located the shop for doing the iron work. Here are arranged several fires, trip hammer, and other large machines required for the works. The locomotive repair shop, with it's huge iron lathes and planers, as well as other machinery (we are not machinist enough to give names to all we saw, is 8 place of no little interest. Among the much in this building that commands the attention of the visitor, perhaps nothing will interest more than the arrangement for removing the wheels of a locomotive from the body of the machine for repairs or for any purpose. The locomotive is placed on the drop table, and after being jacked up as per arrangement made and provided for the occasion, and the wheels are unscrewed, the table is made to drop down, carrying the wheels with it sufficiently to admit of their being removed. This arrangement is managed in exactly the reverse manner from the old plan of accomplishing the same work, the old way being to hoist the
 body of the machine from the wheels, and
 which would seem the most difficult way
 of doing it.
 While the body of the locomotive is rest
 ing on the jack screws, it is not absolutely
 necessary that it should remain there idle.
 If the cab or smoke stack, or as for that
 matter, almost any other part that can be
 removed from the boiler, need repairs, g
 rope on pulley or tackle can be hitchec
 to it after it is detached, and ''snaked" uI
 through an opening in the floor above, to
 the next room, where it can be repaired
 and let back through the hole to it's origina
 position. MT. Chauncey Morris is the in ventor of this new plan of managing thi , difficult job of handling locomotive, ane
 much credit should be accorded him fo : this exhibition of hls superior genius. 2 The entire works are lighted with gas
 which is manufactured near the shops, ant
 we were informed that every nook and COT ner of the large workrooms can be mad "as light as day" by this gas. In tn l of the works, all seems arranged in tn 3 most convenient and substantial manner The locomotives are supplied with water a they stand in their 'stalls," from pipe 5 which pass directly over their tenders, an t which bring water from the hill beyond 3 Nor have the shops received the exclusiv attention of MT. Morris. He has gone ava farther to the west on the hill and found spring of clear cold water, which dis l charges crystal stream that would fill gallon cask every moment, and has lai . down nearly mile of pipe to carr ] it to the houses in Amesville. H ? expects to supply all in that immediate V q cinity, taking it into their houses or into tn > second story of the houses if desired. A
 together these works are credit to tn 0 company which has erected them, and d valuable and important acquisition to tn ' business of this section.