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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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but the datahere given will indicate to some extent what may beaccomplished in heavy city railway work. This companyhaving outgrown its old shops has recently built and equippedan entirely new plant, requiring an investment in build-ings and machinery of something over $450,000. A groundplan, showing the general arrangement of the shops, re-produced from an article descriptive of these shops whichappeared in the Street Railway Journal for March 7, 1903,is given in Fig. 2. The equipment is such as to lead one to ex- oiling, renewals, and replacements, it being the intention toconfine all genuine repair work to the shops. The following tools form the equipment of each car house: Two hydraulic pit jacks. Two two-ton chain blocks. One portable forge. One anvil. One post drill. One grindstone. The necessary hand tools, such as hammer, wrenches, chisels,punches, etc. In the car house, where double-truck cars are cared for, thereis added to this equipment a motor driven oil pump, furnishing
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FIG. 1.—MAIN BAY OF MACHINE SHOP—REPAIR SHOP OF CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY pect great economy, but wages are too high in Chicago torealize this expectation. This company operated during theyear 1902, 206 cable trains, 125 double-truck, four-motor, elec-tric cars, and 402 single-truck, two-motor electric cars. It hasone central repair shop and six car houses, in which car repairwork is done. The various classes of work done at the car houses are: In-spection and cleaning of electrical equipment; adjustment andoverhauling of brakes; renewal of wheels and truck parts; in-spection of grips; minor repairs to car bodies, such as replace-ment of broken windows and car fittings; minor repairs to elec-trical equipment, such as renewal of motor bearings andbrushes; renewal of controller parts, renewal of trolley bases,poles and wheels, and repairs to car wiring. As a general rulethe work done at the car houses consists of inspection, cleaning, oil to five sets of oil jacks for raising bodies off

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