. The Street railway journal . ally, has proven a very An article descriptive of the new third-rail system of thiscompany was presented in the Jan. 2, 1904, issue of the StreetRailway Journal, in which many of the interesting new fea-tures were referred to, but at that time only a brief mentioncould be made of the repair shop facilities which had been de-veloped in anticipation of the work necessary to maintain prop-erly the electrical and mechanical features of the equipment inrunning order. In this article the shop installation and repairmethods will be referred to more fully and in detail.
. The Street railway journal . ally, has proven a very An article descriptive of the new third-rail system of thiscompany was presented in the Jan. 2, 1904, issue of the StreetRailway Journal, in which many of the interesting new fea-tures were referred to, but at that time only a brief mentioncould be made of the repair shop facilities which had been de-veloped in anticipation of the work necessary to maintain prop-erly the electrical and mechanical features of the equipment inrunning order. In this article the shop installation and repairmethods will be referred to more fully and in detail. This shop was intended to provide for, in addition to theperiodical washings and cleanings, adequate facilities for mak-ing both electrical and mechanical repairs of all kinds to therolling-stock equipment. In this connection a plan of the shoplayout is presented, to indicate the arrangement of buildingsthat was provided to care for this work, and a study of the sameis merited on account of the many features of convenience and. GENERAL VIEW OF THE REPAIR SHOP OF THE JACKSON & TATTLE CREEK TRACTION COMPANY, ARRANGEMENT OF ELEVATED TRACKS. TURNTABLE, ETC. SHOWING serious matter, and has required special study in all details; ithas come to rival, if not surpass, as regards exacting and detailnature of work, the similar problems met in steam railroadoperation. The Jackson & Battle Creek Traction Company, owing tothe many radical and progressive methods of operation adopted,met with this problem in a serious manner from the in the endeavor of the management to build up an eco-nomical and paying traffic, the question of maintenance andrepairs has received more than usual attention, and in manyways the results have shown the remarkable grasp of the prin-ciples essential to successful operation under conditions ofheavy railroading. Few roads have, indeed, attempted to oper-ate cars having total weights of 40 tons, and it has been uni-versally found in such cases that conditi
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