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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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this gets to be a habit it isearnestly to be hoped that the questions involved will bethreshed out and the fact (if it is a fact) clearly estab-lished that such a proceeding as the one begun in Cincin-nati has no legal or equitable standing in the courts. Thelatter, we believe, will stand for justice and will not bemisled by specious and demagogic reasoning as to whatmay be alleged to be the most popular course to pursue. 922 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLI, No. 31. Rolling Stock Maintenance in Buffalo An Extended Campaign Is Being Conducted by the Mechanical Department to Remodel the Equipment and to ReduceMaintenance Costs—An Unusually Complete System of Records Has Been Developed as One Means to That End The present year is a very busy one for the mechanicaldepartment of the International Railway Company, as theextensive purchase of near-side cars by this company hasmade it possible to remodel a large number of the oldercars at the Cold Spring shops. There are on the pay roll
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Buffalo Car Maintenance—City Car as Rebuilt for Inter-urban Service on Lockport Line of the mechanical department at the present time a totalof 438 men, of whom 236 are employed in the shops.Others are located at the various carhouses as follows:Cold Spring, 58; Hertel, 37; Forest Avenue, 25; Broadway.38; Walden, 22; Seneca, 22. The company operates nearly 750 cars, of which at pres-ent 45 are in the shop undergoing repairs or awaiting atten-tion. The cars in operation from the different carhousesare as follows: Cold Spring, 208; Broadway, 176; Hertel,89; Forest Avenue, 85; Walden, 62; Seneca, 80; NiagaraFalls, 44; Lockport, 19; Niagara Falls, Ontario, 6. Inaddition about fifty cars are assigned to the various car-houses but not operated. The Cold Spring shops, which were described in detailin the issue of the Electric Railway Journal for July 7,1906, are located on Main Street at the corner of BalcomStreet, about 2.y2 miles from the center of the city. At theshops is done the repai

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