. Electric railway journal . shop-built crane to remain constantly in the maintenance ofway department. This has resulted in more efficientwork and elimination of interference to the depart-ments maintenance programs, which have sufferedthrough loaning the crane at times for the storedepartments work. The crane in the service of thestore department is of only 3 tons capacity because ithas a 36-ft. boom and a limited counterbalance. Theextra length of boom required by the store departmentis for handling long steel and wooden trolley poles, railof 50-ft. and 60-ft. lengths, and miscellaneous oth
. Electric railway journal . shop-built crane to remain constantly in the maintenance ofway department. This has resulted in more efficientwork and elimination of interference to the depart-ments maintenance programs, which have sufferedthrough loaning the crane at times for the storedepartments work. The crane in the service of thestore department is of only 3 tons capacity because ithas a 36-ft. boom and a limited counterbalance. Theextra length of boom required by the store departmentis for handling long steel and wooden trolley poles, railof 50-ft. and 60-ft. lengths, and miscellaneous othermaterial. The Pacific Electric is constantly devising originalmethods of handling various classes of work for thecranes, whereby the cost of the work may be reducedto the minimum, and the element of dispatch in sohandling the work is of the highest order. When thiscompany recently constructed its new overhead viaductin the rear of its Main Street terminal, two tracks ex-isted on a portion of the old viaduct which could not. PACIFIC ELECTRIC WRECKING CRANE PLACINGBRIDGE GIRDER be taken out of service while rearranging special workof the new layout. With the cranes the new specialwork was installed and old layouts were relocated whiletraffic was stopped, within a minimum time and withvery little delay to train operation. In addition alltrack material for new tracks on the viaduct was un-loaded with much rapidity. The maintenance of way department maintains sev-eral branch material assembly yards at various pointson the lines. At the most centrally-located yard a largestationary electric motor-driven rail bender is oper-ated, designed particularly for curving the tee and gir-der sections of rail used in city paved streets. The railis shipped to this yard and the crane unloads each railseparately. Then when it is curved by the rail bender,the rail is returned by the same operation to the samecar or another car for shipment to the various there is a considerable saving i
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