. Factory and industrial management. ipment and care of station-ary motors, special station electrical apparatus, electric lighting, heat-ing, bell work, etc., throughout the system, including buildings, sta-tions, subways, and elevated railways^all under a superintendent ofcar equipment. 2. New car construction, painting, glazing, upholstering, signing,and repair of old car bodies and vehicles of every description, with itsmill room and lumber sheds, conveniently situated—under a superin-tendent of car construction or master car builder. 3. General minor car repairs at car houses, concerned w
. Factory and industrial management. ipment and care of station-ary motors, special station electrical apparatus, electric lighting, heat-ing, bell work, etc., throughout the system, including buildings, sta-tions, subways, and elevated railways^all under a superintendent ofcar equipment. 2. New car construction, painting, glazing, upholstering, signing,and repair of old car bodies and vehicles of every description, with itsmill room and lumber sheds, conveniently situated—under a superin-tendent of car construction or master car builder. 3. General minor car repairs at car houses, concerned with thedaily inspection, cleaning, and handling of cars and car-house equip-ment, snow-plow equipment, repairs to all parts of the trucks and elec-trical equipment, shifting of cars and supplies—under a superintendentof car repairs. 4. That for manufacturing and machinery repairs, concerned withthe making and fitting up of all mechanical apparatus and other de-vices in connection therewith, such as wood and insulating materials;. ABOVE IS THE TRUCK SHOP FOR ELEVATED CARS; BELOW, THE MANUFACTURING AND REPAIR SHOP. The truck shop contains modern motor-driven tools, such as wheel grinders, wheel press, double-ended tire lathe, radial drill, shaper, hoists, turntables etc.; the manufacturing and repair shop builds and repairs all kinds of railway machinery, from a clock to an electric locomotive. 518 MECHANICAL EXGIXEERIXG OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 519 here are received daily orders from all over the road, embracing every-thing from delicate electrical instruments to 5,000-horse-power enginerepairs; here are handled all car and track parts, power-station ma-chinery, line construction, subway and elevated apparatus, and car-house appliances; this department operates the pattern and carpentershop, brass foundry, and blacksmith shop, and has facilities for secur-ing other castings and large forgings at various cast-iron, malleable-iron, and brass foundries and forge shops. All this wo
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