. The street railway review . s devoted to the various departments of repairshop work. The equipment of the shop includes three large hy-draulic lifts, which make the operation of jacking up one end of acar. lowering the trucks to the shop floor level and lifting a newpair into place, an operation of four minutes duration. Theshop is equipped with cranes and labor saving tools of recent de-sign. The blacksmith shop contains 14 forges. The storehouseis at the northern end of the building and in separate buildings arethe lamp room and oil storage house. The feature in the construc-tion of the sh
. The street railway review . s devoted to the various departments of repairshop work. The equipment of the shop includes three large hy-draulic lifts, which make the operation of jacking up one end of acar. lowering the trucks to the shop floor level and lifting a newpair into place, an operation of four minutes duration. Theshop is equipped with cranes and labor saving tools of recent de-sign. The blacksmith shop contains 14 forges. The storehouseis at the northern end of the building and in separate buildings arethe lamp room and oil storage house. The feature in the construc-tion of the shop building to which attention is directed is the two-inch wire lath and plaster wall, together with the fireproof brickwalls dividing the building into sections. Another interesting feature at this location is the provision whichhas been made for heating all of the buildings. On the east sideof Gillen Place, opposite the shop, is an ash-collecting station whichis one of many distributed throughout Brooklyn. The street clean-. CONCRETE RETAINING WALL BETWEEN ELEVATED AND SURFACE YARDS. ing department delivers certain forms of the city waste to this sta-tion, which is assorted by pickers. That portion of the refuse whichis of no value goes to the incinerator, the heat from which is utilized,through a system of indirect radiation, for heating the surface re-pair shop, the club house, the shop foremans office, the two-storyshop, the inspection shed, including the armature room, and thedispatchers office. That portion which cannot be burned, togwith the ashes from the incinerator, is taken away by the cars ofthe street railway. 342 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW [Vol. XVI, No. 6. At this point of the system is located one of the several clubhouses of the employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. It ismanaged by the men themselves and contains every appurtenanceof the modem, well-equipped club house. reconstruction. The Coney Island tracks at one time ran intothe station at right angles to
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