. The Street railway journal . the end of the carin position. The elevator is thenlowered to the ground floor, car-rying the truck with it, while thecar body remains supported overthe opening. Views showing theappearance of the car on the carhouse floor are given in Figs. 3and 4, while Fig. 6 shows the de-scending truck as it appears fromthe ground or repair shop floor. Upon reaching the repair shopfloor the truck is pushed on to theturn-table shown, and taken toany part of the floor desired. Afinished truck stands ready on thetrack at the other side of the ele-vator, and is moved to position
. The Street railway journal . the end of the carin position. The elevator is thenlowered to the ground floor, car-rying the truck with it, while thecar body remains supported overthe opening. Views showing theappearance of the car on the carhouse floor are given in Figs. 3and 4, while Fig. 6 shows the de-scending truck as it appears fromthe ground or repair shop floor. Upon reaching the repair shopfloor the truck is pushed on to theturn-table shown, and taken toany part of the floor desired. Afinished truck stands ready on thetrack at the other side of the ele-vator, and is moved to position onthe latter. The elevator then returns to the car storage floor,the truck is slipped into position, the car body braces are re-moved and the car, as far as that truck is concerned, is readyfor service. The entire change takes less than 5 minutes. The cars in the car house and the trucks on the repair shopfloor are moved by means of their electric motors. As it wasnot considered wise to employ the third-rail system in the car. FIG. 5.—CAR, WITH TRUCK ONTO
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