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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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ite aside from the question of power loss is the danger ofbreakdowns in the shop on account of improper loading ofthe equipment. The tendency now is to keep cars in theshop as little of the time as is possible, and interruptions inthe work of repairs are too costly to be justified by the pre-ventable failures of shop motive power. I/O STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. r^oL. XXLX. Xo. THE ELEVATED SHOPS AND TERMINALS OF THEBROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY-ORGANIZA-TION AND GENERAL LAYOUT AT EAST NEW YORK Within the past year the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com-pany has placed in service two model plants for the ele-vated railway work of its mechanical department. Thelarger of these installations is at East New York and in-cludes manufacturing for other divisions, while the smallerone at Thirty-Sixth Street, South Brooklyn, is simply aninspection and maintenance shop. An interesting featurecommon to both installations is the fact that they are locatedon grounds which served for older plants. At East New
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St. Jiy. Journal FIG. 1.—CHART SHOVvING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ELE-VATED RAILWAY DIVISION, UNDER THE SUPERIN-TENDENT OF EQUIPMENT, BROOKLYNRAPID TRANSIT COMPANY York an entirely new set of buildings had to be erected, butat Thirty-Sixth Street it was found possible to remodel as apart of the new plant the terminal station of the old Pros-pect Park & Coney Island Railroad, which is now a portionof the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system. As the inspectionand maintenance methods of the two plants do not differmaterially, it will not be necessary to describe the Thirty-Sixth Street shop in detail, emphasizing only such featuresas involve departures from the slightly earlier installation atEast New York. The reorganization and development of the shop systemof the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has been underthe direction of William G. Gove, superintendent of equip-ment in charge of the mechanical department. Mr. Govewas formerly connected with the Cincinnati Street RailwayCompany and wit

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