. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The spacebelow each which in the engraving isshown as it was while the shops werein progress of construction, seem tobe encumbered with benches, etc., shop tracks that cabs may be removedfrom above or below them and placeddirectly upon the shop trucks fortransfer to any part of the erectingshop. The carpenter shop for cabwork is located on the other side of thefloor directly opposite the cab storager;icks and is connected with them byshop tracks. The arrangement isclearly shown in the engravi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The spacebelow each which in the engraving isshown as it was while the shops werein progress of construction, seem tobe encumbered with benches, etc., shop tracks that cabs may be removedfrom above or below them and placeddirectly upon the shop trucks fortransfer to any part of the erectingshop. The carpenter shop for cabwork is located on the other side of thefloor directly opposite the cab storager;icks and is connected with them byshop tracks. The arrangement isclearly shown in the engraving, andnot only the utilization of space buttlie general convenience arc at onceajjparent. Pension Plan on the N. Y. C. llie Xcw York Central Lines haveadopted a pension system which will gointo effect Jan., 1910. It has beenarranged that employees, on reaching theage of 70 are retired. If thcy have beencontinuously in the service of the com-pany for at least 10 years immediatelypreceding their retirement they will beentitled to a pension. An employee wholias been at least 20 year? in continuous. .Ml-:rill)ii 111 ■ I iKIXi, c \l;-, ;! Simi: which do not belong there. When thisspace is clear it is sufficient to holda cab, so that the five brackets and thealternate intervening spaces affordstorage room for nine cabs, or aboutthe number likely to need storage atany one time in a shop affording re-pair room for 35 locomotives, morethan the present capacity of the reason of the staggered arrange-ment of the storage space on and un-derneath the racks and the openingsbetween adjacent racks, the presenceof cabs upon the racks offers nohindrance to the handling of cabs intoand out of the space below by the useof the crane. The brackets are alsoso arranged with reference to the SI rvice and has become unlit for dutymay be retired with a pension althoughhe has not reached the 70-year age limit. The amount of the pension is i percent, for each year of continuous serv
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