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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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Peckham and St. Louis maximum tractiontrucks. The company has forty-five double-truck closed carsand thirty-eight single-truck cars, 138 open cars, five sweepers,five Taunton plows, two rotaries and three sprinklers, also anumber of flat cars. CHANGEABLE SIGN-As the cars run on different routes an ingenious form ofchangeable sign has been adopted so that a car can easily be overhauled. The force required in the inspection, repair andcleaning departments on the entire road are as follows: 34th STREET CAR DEPOT2 day men—i repairer, I cleaner.2 night men—i repairer, 1 cleaner. STEIN WAY CAR BARN. 4 line men. 2 line men helpers.1 day stableman. 1 night stableman. WOODSIDE CAR HOUSEDay Force 1 general foreman. 1 machinist. 1 armature winder. 1 armature repair man. 1 blacksmith. 1 blacksmith helper. 3 pit men. 3 pit men helpers. 1 boy to look after tail lights and controllers.1 boy to pour boxes, etc. 4 car cleaners.1 janitor. 1 storekeeper. August 22, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 25$
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^56 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 8. i storekeeper boy. 3 painters. 4 carpenters. Night Force i fireman. i motor greaser. i brake inspector. 1 trolley wheel and pole inspector. 2 car cleaners. The company operates from forty cars tofifty cars on week days, and on summer Sun-days its full equipment of 130 cars. B. O. SIGNS When the crew leaves a car the motormanis obliged to fill out a card similar to thatshown on page 258, and popularly known asa B. O. car. On this he checks off any partof the equipment which is in bad order, andhangs the card on a hook in the car. If theequipment is o. k. the card is so marked.When a bad order card is found in a car theinspector immediately makes an examination,and if the apparatus is defective has it re-paired. He then signs the card and hands itin at the office of the superintendent ofmotive power. Under no circumstances is acrew allowed to take out a car with a B.O. sign. The advantages of the practice arenumerous. It locates the respons

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