. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2—FRAME OF TWENTY-FIVE FOOT CAR FOR WEST END RAILWAY. dry are delivered to a chute directly alongside of it from the cars bya special track. The cabinet shop, which is a large building two stories high,200 ft. X 42 ft., is fitted up in the lower story with a complete set ofmodern wood working machinery for getting out the material forsteam, passenger, electric or horse car work. There are also con-nected with this department carving and routing machines to savehand work. The carving is largely a hand product and the carvingmachine merely used to save labor i
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2—FRAME OF TWENTY-FIVE FOOT CAR FOR WEST END RAILWAY. dry are delivered to a chute directly alongside of it from the cars bya special track. The cabinet shop, which is a large building two stories high,200 ft. X 42 ft., is fitted up in the lower story with a complete set ofmodern wood working machinery for getting out the material forsteam, passenger, electric or horse car work. There are also con-nected with this department carving and routing machines to savehand work. The carving is largely a hand product and the carvingmachine merely used to save labor in roughing, routing and thegeneral work which requires neither taste nor artistic ability. Theupper part of this shop is devoted to the finer portions of the cabinetwork and the finishing and putting together of the work which isbrought from below by an elevator. From the upper portion of theshop there is a covered bridge to the second floor of the erecting FIG. L—INTERIOR OF PAINT SHOP, SHOWING LONG WEST END CARS. There are two special wood working shops arranged at the endof the erecting works, which take the lumber from the pile or the dryhouse, and make it ready to go upon the car without the necessityfor hand work. Immediately adjoining these shops is a machineshop, 70 ft. X 70 ft., fitted up with tools of the latest pattern, enablingthem to complete, conveniently and carefully, all sorts of machinework that may be needed in the forging or blacksmith shop. The latteris 50 ft. X 160 ft. The company makes forgingsof all descriptions,bolts, nuts and all the iron work necessary in the establishment,beside turning out a great deal of special work upon orders. Theproduct is about twenty tons of forgings per day. This erecting shop is Soft, x 160 ft. and has upon one side a ninety-foot extension. The arrangement of this shop is exceedingly con-venient and the tracks are laid in such a way as to enable the workto be entirely progressive w
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