. The Street railway journal . vice more quickly and the absolute assurance exists thatonly the best repair materials are used throughout. The ad-vantages of home work would disappear, of course, if the EMMM ESE31 KINGSTON FARE AND COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS CAR TICKETS j IN CONVENIENT BOOK FORMCan be Purchased of CONNELLY DRUG CO., Broadway and & SCHOONMAKER, 328 Wall W. JOHNSTON 26 East L. McBRIDE, 634 Broadway. 21 FOR $ differential screw type operated with a ratchet. The jackproper is screwed into a wooden block which rests on aplatform furnished with w
. The Street railway journal . vice more quickly and the absolute assurance exists thatonly the best repair materials are used throughout. The ad-vantages of home work would disappear, of course, if the EMMM ESE31 KINGSTON FARE AND COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS CAR TICKETS j IN CONVENIENT BOOK FORMCan be Purchased of CONNELLY DRUG CO., Broadway and & SCHOONMAKER, 328 Wall W. JOHNSTON 26 East L. McBRIDE, 634 Broadway. 21 FOR $ differential screw type operated with a ratchet. The jackproper is screwed into a wooden block which rests on aplatform furnished with wheels to permit easy transportationof the jack up and down the pit. At the top of the jack is aplate for carrying the semi-circular iron segment which holdsan armature scoop. The latter is made of iron but has nosharp edges which could cut into the insulation of the arm-ature coils. ROLLING STOCK AND PAINTINGThere are thirty-eight passenger cars, twenty-four of whicharc nine and ten-bench open cars and fourteen are 16-ft.,. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF TICKET ADVERTISING POSTER SCALE A =/ PLAN AND ELEVATION OF WHEEL PIT FOR CHANGINGWHEELS AND AXLES FOR SINGLE-TRUCK CARS management were not in position to keep strict supervisionover the labor and the material. The master mechanic of the company has devised a neatwheel pit which has proved a great labor saver in changingsets of wheels of single-truck cars. Vertical brick archesextend outward from the pit at the place where the wheelsare to be changed. The area enclosed by these arches iscovered by the shop flooring except for the removable piecescorresponding to the positions of the journal boxes. Whenit is desired to change a pair of wheels the car is run over thispit and then jacked up about 4 ins. After this is done, the6-ft. section of track spanning the diameter of the arch islifted out of the way, and the axle, wheels and journal boxesare lowered as a unit. The construction dimensions of thispit are shown in the accompanying plan a
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