. The Street railway journal . olley wheels, grinding contact surfaces smooth,as in circuit breaker and controller repairs, are convenientif placed not far from the storeroom. At times it is an ex-cellent plan to locate an emery wheel inside the room itselffor the removal of burrs and other defects on small cast-ings. Register, circuit breaker, headlight and controllerrepairs require mainly hand work, and the removal of thesewell away from the machine tools is a distinct step inadvance. 68 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 3. TRACK RECONSTRUCTION IN SAN FRANCISCO to an established city gr
. The Street railway journal . olley wheels, grinding contact surfaces smooth,as in circuit breaker and controller repairs, are convenientif placed not far from the storeroom. At times it is an ex-cellent plan to locate an emery wheel inside the room itselffor the removal of burrs and other defects on small cast-ings. Register, circuit breaker, headlight and controllerrepairs require mainly hand work, and the removal of thesewell away from the machine tools is a distinct step inadvance. 68 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 3. TRACK RECONSTRUCTION IN SAN FRANCISCO to an established city grade. For some distance at the ^ lower end the tracks had to be raised as much as four feet. Considerable interesting track work has been carried on This work was started last summer and has been carried in San Francisco by the United Railroads since the earth- on without interruption to the car service which at this quake and fire of April 18, 1907. Some of this work has point is more congested than in any other section of the. THE COMPLETED LOOPS AT THE FERRY BUILDING been necessitated by the changing of the old. cable linesover to operation by electricity, the alteration consistingprincipally in taking out the old cable rails, slot rails andyokes and relaying the track with heavy girder rails. Onmany of the old electric lines new rails had to be laid and city. The lack of interruption to service was due to therebeing four tracks on this portion of Market Street, two ofwhich could be temporarily out of commission at a was first started on the outer north track an4 thenon the south outer track. The north inner track was next
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