. The Street railway journal . 1600-KW DIRECT-CONNECTED UNIT IN FREMONT STREET STATION the sand, etc., is provided with a track running directlyover the coal pocket, which is placed in front of the this way the coal car can be run in and dumped withgreat ease. The inspection pit at the side of the building, which is 426 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 14. illustrated in one of the accompanying engravings, is of arather peculiar construction. The floor on each side of therails is lowered a foot or two so that work on the truck canbe done in a more comfortable position than wher
. The Street railway journal . 1600-KW DIRECT-CONNECTED UNIT IN FREMONT STREET STATION the sand, etc., is provided with a track running directlyover the coal pocket, which is placed in front of the this way the coal car can be run in and dumped withgreat ease. The inspection pit at the side of the building, which is 426 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 14. illustrated in one of the accompanying engravings, is of arather peculiar construction. The floor on each side of therails is lowered a foot or two so that work on the truck canbe done in a more comfortable position than where the flooris level with the track. This pit greatly facilitates the rapid of the room near the inspection pit, where small repairscan be made. There is a small pond on the property of the companyadjoining the car house, from which water is pumped to a30,000-gallon tank on the roof by a motor-driven pump in. THE GATES LANE CAR HOUSE inspection of the cars, both by enabling the inspector to ob-tain more daylight around the trucks and to better get atthe various parts without assuming a cramped under the pit tracks is a transfer truck for re-moving wheels. The wheels are removed in a mannersomewhat out of the ordinary. The pair of wheelsshown in the illustration of the pit room are placedover a removable section of the track. After a carhas been run over this section it can be jacked up bythe hoists at the side, and by removing these sectionsof rail a pair of wheels can be lowered to the trans-fer truck below without difficulty. A car body hoistat the rear allows a truck to be removed and runback into the blacksmith shop on the continuationof the pit tracks. Two jib cranes arc provided forthe handling of other heavy parts in thepit room. With the exception of the inspection pitsthe lower platforms running alone the sides.
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