Starting the production of marine turbines and gears would have lagged at Westinghouse Electric’s new merchant marine works except for the help obtained from an old locomotive. A large section of the plant was ready for operation before the steam heating system had been installed. Recognizing speed of production as the keynote to victory, company officials rented the “iron horse” from a railroad company and ran it to the plant on specially laid tracks. Steam from the locomotive flowed through a line into the plant’s system and soon made the building comfortably warm, enabling the men and machines to start a three-shift production program. A 60-foot stack added to the short “funnel” of the locomotive provided a strong draft and sent the smoke skyward.