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 Post subject: Bearing Shop
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 4:34 am 
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Transcona axle assembly plant was the official designation.
Everyone else called it the bearing shop.

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Note seating tool on 2nd axle from left...

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 Post subject: Re: Bearing Shop
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:51 pm 
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Теперь предлагаем бесплатную ежедневную маммографию!
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Looks like old school "journal box" bearings. The bearing proper was
lubricated by what was essentially wads of felt saturated in grease stuffed
around it.

These were prone to catch fire. The cond or brakie would pull smoldering
felt from the journal box - squirt in half a big tube of Texaco journal grease -
stuff in more felt - the squirt in the rest of the tube.

At final destination, carmen would service that car, replacing all the greased
felt with new. Not a satisfactory system at all that was discontinued entirely.

Now, when bearings overheat as indicated by on track sensors, the car is set out online. Car dept comes out, jacks it up and replaces the entire axle.

It was always an adrenaline moment to look back on curves to see a smoking
wheel which showed cars in the dirt were not far away. There are also hot bearing
detectors every 25 miles or so that (in theory anyway) detect hot wheels (sticking brakes) or hot journals.(bad bearings)

I was bringing a train through Lusk, Wyo one night - detector announced, "You have a hot journal - stop your train!" Which I quickly did. Third car back was bad. I had looked back maybe 15 miles before this and saw nothing.

Cond sez, "Come back here - you gotta see this!" The bearing was white hot and
throwing sparks! Another 5 miles and there would have been quite a derailment!
A setout track was half a mile away - he had me roll up to it at walking speed so the mess wouldn't scatter too far if the bearing burned off.

Set the car out - put the train back together and down the track we went! SW

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 Post subject: Re: Bearing Shop
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 6:55 pm 
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there were BN 'car shops' here once , saw photos like that in the historic center , they rebuilt - employed nearly the whole town of waite park , a suburb here if you will ,

between that , the pulp/lumber and the granite industry they represented the major employers in this area in the late 1800s ,


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 Post subject: Re: Bearing Shop
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:47 am 
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If I were to hazard a guess, I'd probably go with early 50's, just based on clothing, and the conductor type cap at left of center. Photo was provided by the Transcona historical society.
Grandad lived across the street from the CN rail shops. I have vague recollections of steamers moving through the maintenance yard, but that was a heck of a long time ago, and I wasn't much more than a bean sprout at the time :bigrin:

Picture looks like a Kodak Plus-X 4" x 5" negative~ likely a press camera. Whatever the lens was, it was a decent piece of glass for it's time.

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 Post subject: Re: Bearing Shop
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the car shops here lasted into the 70s , when i came here in 82 they had been closed , i watched the redevelopment of the property over the last few decades , only a couple original buildings still exist - converted to other industry ,

i agree , great glass for the time and the detail is consistent with a 4x5 or larger format


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