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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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are both single-track lines laid with 7-inch girder rail. The in-terurban division has a double overhead trolley, which con-struction required no switches at regular turnouts. Believingthat some of the shop practices on this line may be of interestto those engaged in similar work on other lines, I shalldescribe in detail our methods of inspection and repair work. Rolling Stock.The equipment which is now operated includes ten 45-footdouble-truck cars. Each of these cars is equipped with four Allegheny Shop Practice—View of Wheels Being Raised fromRepair Pit. duties as oiling cars, changing trolley wheels and adjustingbrakes. Car House Inspection—Night. Our night men do no armature changing or repairing, unlessit is a trivial repair such as a burned-off motor lead or brushspring or a controller finger. As each car is taken off the road at night it is run over apit by the inspectors and the brakes are adjusted, if necessary.Then the motors are inspected for armature clearance and all
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Allegheny Shop Practice—Method of Supporting Body and Truck When Changing Wheels on Interurban Equipment. Westinghouse 101-B motors. The control on eight of the carsis the Westinghouse electro-pneumatic type and on the othertwo cars the General Electric type M control is used. Thereare also ten 31-foot single-truck cars with Westinghouse No.68 motors and B-23 controllers and two 28-foot single-truck carswith Westinghouse 38-B motors and K-ll controllers. Thevoltage on the line is 550. The regular week-day schedule requires six interurban and bolts gone over and if car is equipped with air the pump motoris shut off and the air reservoir drained. We have a bulletinboard placed in the shop, and if a car is found to have lowarmature bearings and bad shoes the inspector does not renewthe shoes or inspect the car further. He runs it off the pittrack and devotes his time to other cars. He then marks upthe car on the bulletin board, thus: Car No. 39 low armature bearings No. 2, motor, bad s

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