Heavy Machinery
The following table shows some of the machinery used in the original shop. All of the rotating power machinery was driven by leather belts from overhead master shafts. These, in turn, were powered by a stationery steam engine in the adjacent power house. A similar facility may be seen today at the East Broad Top Railroad, in Pennsylvania.
- Equipment from Bement & Dougherty, unless otherwise noted
- Engine lathe, 28" x 8 foot bed
- Horizontal boring and drilling machine, table size 24" x 44"
- 18" x 48" engine lathe, C&P
- 18" x 24" engine lathe, C&P
- vertical boring mill 54"
- car wheel boring mill, 48" table
- 10" slotter
- wooden jib crane, 20' mast, 15' boom, 4.5 ton capacity, C&P
- punch & shear, 30" throat (used for rivet holes)
- Car shop
The car shop would build the wooden parts of the engine, such as the cab.
- 18" rip saw
- Lowell drill press
- Tice shaper/molder
- Blacksmith shop
- Fulton 500 pound power hammer (for forging)
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