The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-06-03
Ann Arbor Ry. and Shops.

ounuhy, JUNE D, tue Aun ArOOr TdllrOau
Co will run an excursion to Lake Erie
Park and Casino at Toledo. Special train
leaves OwOsso at a m Fare for round
under twelve years of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Quigey and son,
left the first of the week for a two eeks
visit with relatives at st. Paris, Ohio, Mr..
Luigley is shipping clerk at the Owosso
station.
Engineer W. Hurst and Fireman ThOs.
Veit, of Durand, were In the city Wednes.
day on business
Engine No "a was again brought to the
shops Wednesday on account of the loosen
ing of one of its cylinder heads. 1t was
repaired and turned from the shop Wednes-
day night
Engine No 81 was brought in the first of
the week and is now receiving much needed
repairs on its boiler.
The master mechanics Office building Is
being painted this week.
Foreman N. d. Berry and a crew of
painters together with several carpenters
and boiler makers left Saturday for Frank
fort to do repairing on car ferry No. 3
Jas. s. Thompson was in Durand Tues.
day on business.
Master Mechanic Tawse is in Frankfort
this week, experimenting the remodeling
of boat No. 2.
Gen. Manager Ashley passed through
OwossO Wednesday morning in his private
car enroute to Frankfort.
George Martin and wife spent Sunday at
Cohoctah.
Geo. Darling is unable to work this week
on account of sickness.
Thos McGrail and crew of wire repairers
were here the first of the week erecting
new poles and repairing the wires about
the yards.
j Sutton is sick and unable to attend to
his duties this week.
Christopher Hux is regaining his form er
good health and will probably return to
work Monday.
Ed. Cheney, S. M. Card, Ed. Cook and
T. Taphouse went to Chison Monday for
days outing. They returned home Tues
day night.
Jas. Prendergast, of Durand, greeted
friends In Ow0sso Monday.
The two large triple expansion marine
engines for the Cos. new ferry, being built
at Cleveland, which have been In the
machine shop here for the past month
undergoing repairs, are now completed and
loaded on cars ready for shipment.
Combination express and mail coach No.
205, and baggage and express car No. 1O2
are ready to be turned upon the road after
undergoing extensive repairs. Their new
Pullman finish make them present very
gaudy appearance.
The center engine ''pit" in the machine
shop is being replanked and braced. The
old planks and timbers had become decayed
and when engine No. % was brought in it
came near being run into the pit, caused
by the loosening and turning of one of the
rails. 1t is now being carefully built and
workman will hereafter feel more at ease
while working in it underneath the large
engines.
A slip crane was broken on boat No at
Frankfort last week. 1t is being repaired
here by machinist Beach.
Geo. Westbrook, of Durand, called upon
old friends in Owosso, Sunday and Monday.
Geo. Connors, of Norfolk, Va, an Old
time machinist in the Owosso shops visited
his former brother workmen here the first
of the week.
All the Ann Arbor engines are being
equipped with new style smoke stack
They are made of cast iron instead of sheet
iron as heretofore, and have a different
shape than those now in use.
A new tire removing torch is being built
by mechanic in the machine department.
1t consists of a drum of gas, under pressure,
and connected to this is a gas pipe pune
tured full of holes and bent in a circular
form so that all parts of the tire may be
heated at once. The device is only an
experiment, but If it proves successful will
be very useful in railroad shops.
Milo Bott was doing repair work on the
water tank pump at Banister, Wednesday.
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