November 1957 page 3

[photograph of a locomotive]
LOCOMOTIVE STANDS BY AFTER HAVING BEEN CHECKED AT THE GREENVILLE SHOPS.

IN GREENVILLE

Small Shop Does Big Things

[photograph of men painting]
PAINTING for both appearance and protection
is an important activity of the Greenville Shops.
Here, a caboose is getting a brand new paint job.

THERE is mighty little glamor asso-
ciated with a railroad mechanical
shop. It is mostly grease, nuts and bolts,
complicated machinery, and plain hard
work.

On large railroads the shops usually
employ hundreds of skilled workers and
sprawl over dozens of acres. Normally
a railroad the size of the Piedmont and
Northern would have only one central
shop employing perhaps 25 persons with
a wide diversity of skills. But the P & N,
having two physically unconnected di-
visions must have two shops-one at Pi-
noca just outside of Charlotte for the
North Carolina Division and the other
in Greenville for the South Carolina
Division. Both shops are small and com-
pact but are equipped to handle the most
complicated maintenance jobs as well as
routine repairs.

The P & N's Greenville shops, tucked
away in the gas-house section of the
city, are the largest of the two because
they maintain more locomotive power

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