. The Street railway journal . by the car house foreman. It is issued to the carhouse inspectors and rcjjairmen without requisition other cennes Road to Seventy-eighth Street and turn east on therunning track south of the shop buildings to , which is at the rear of the old car house. Underthe direction of three car placers, who have charge of twoliays each, they are assigned to a given track and run motornian makes a verbal statement to the car placer 6oo STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 15. of any defects on his car before leaving it. The car placerkeeps a record


. The Street railway journal . by the car house foreman. It is issued to the carhouse inspectors and rcjjairmen without requisition other cennes Road to Seventy-eighth Street and turn east on therunning track south of the shop buildings to , which is at the rear of the old car house. Underthe direction of three car placers, who have charge of twoliays each, they are assigned to a given track and run motornian makes a verbal statement to the car placer 6oo STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 15. of any defects on his car before leaving it. The car placerkeeps a record as shown in Fig. 5, giving the car numbersin the order in which they were run in on the several tracksunder his direction. On the back of this sheet are blankspaces for entering the verbal report of defects as given bythe motormen. These verbal reports are checked against themotormens signing-in sheet, Fig. 7, by the carhouse fore-man. CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY CAR HOUSE ^£i CAR PLfcCERS RECORD ■ BAY BaTnoH^ZZ. detail any defect or difficulty in operating the car or toplace an O. K. in the column if in good condition. Thissigning-in sheet has lines for the entry of 38 incoming-cars, but before the sheet is entirely filled a clerk in the car-house foremans office transfers the entries of all defectivecar numbers to a large repair chart filed on a board locatedconveniently for the use of the inspectors and repair men. CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY FOREMANS REPORT OF CABS RETURNED TO MECHANIC. CAR REPORTED AS HELD rN ON TH£ SIGN IN SHEET OF^^ ^FOR NECESSARY REPAIRS HAVE BEEN MADE. CAR HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY INSPECTED BY ME. ISIN GOOD OPERATIVE CONDITION. AND RETURNED TO SERVICE ;19 (HELD IN- ON SIOUT AND rORWA FIG. 5.—CAR RECORD


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