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Identifier: electricrailway521918newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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canbe conceived from one instance in which this verySan Francisco bus philanthropy was used as proofpositive that the bus was cheaper and better than anystreet car could be. The bus protagonist, we learned,got his idea from a newspaper clipping which weespied on the wall of his office. This clipping hada line-up of the buses referred to in our article overthe cheery caption San Francisco Municipal Busesa Huge Success. The article gave no costs whateverbut did say the buses were giving fine service andmaking money for the city. To some minds all intakeis clear profit. That seems to have been the case withour interlocutor so far as buses are concerned. It wasa hard task to convince him that the city, throughits own railway, was really conducting a charity fora select few of its suburbanites and that the citizensas a whole had to foot the bill. If a street railwayreformer can fall into such blunders, what shall wesay of the run-of-mine citizen? 364 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 9
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SCENES IN THE CONNECTICUT COMPANYS RECLAMATION SHOP Figs. 1 and 2—General Views in the Machine Shop. Fig. 3—The Armature Winding Room Where Only Women Are Employed.Fig. 4—Banding and Testing Armatures. Fig. 5—Receiving Section with Typical Piles of Equipment Parts. Fig. 6—WeldingDivision with Two Very Common Jobs LTnder Way. August 31, 1918 Transportation Wins Wars No Less than Generals 365 Connecticut Company Centralizes Reclamation Work at New Haven By Segregating Heavy Repairs, Manufacturing Operations and Reclaiming of DamagedEquipment This Company Has Achieved Substantial Economies—The FeminineElement Bids Fair to Predominate in the Reclamation Shop A CONSIDERABLE step in the direction of rollingf-\ stock maintenance economy has been taken byJL. the Connecticut Company during the last fewmonths by the installation of a reclamation shop atNew Haven. The management was convinced that byrelieving the division shops of everything but routinemaintenance work it would be po

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