. The Street railway journal . ommodations for forty-two cars. This may seemlike a limited space, but outside and to the south and eastof the building are storage tracks for three or four times asmany cars, and distributed through the two cities are sev-eral large car houses. All of the tracks inthe car stationare provided with pits, which extend the entire length, andlight repairs will be made there. If extensive repairs areneeded on trucks or motors they are sent to the machineshop, and all the work of the car station is under the eyeof one foreman. The truck interchange system used by the c
. The Street railway journal . ommodations for forty-two cars. This may seemlike a limited space, but outside and to the south and eastof the building are storage tracks for three or four times asmany cars, and distributed through the two cities are sev-eral large car houses. All of the tracks inthe car stationare provided with pits, which extend the entire length, andlight repairs will be made there. If extensive repairs areneeded on trucks or motors they are sent to the machineshop, and all the work of the car station is under the eyeof one foreman. The truck interchange system used by the company has in the station proper, it is run to the erecting department inthe paint shop, the separate erecting shop not yet having,been begun, and there lifted from its trucks, which are runout for use under other car bodies, or, if they need repairs,to the machine shop. Under the truck interchange systemeither car body or trucks go into service as soon as readyand demanded. The machine shop is equipped for heavy work, such as. MACHINE SHOP, WITH PAINT SHOT IN THE REAR proved thoroughly successful and has been the more feasiblebecause of the uniformity of the equipment used. Another plan that contributes to efficiency is the weeklyshift of cars from regular to trip service and vice versa. Bythis plan cars that one week are on regular duty and putinto the station only at night, and therefore get only nightinspection and repairs, the next week are put on trip serv-ice, being out only two or three hours at a time and gettingday inspection and repairs at the car station. If a car body needs considerable repairs, not admitted of THE NEW FOUNDRY AND BLACKSMITH SHOP OF THE TWIN CITY RAPID TRANSIT CO. the use of unusually large cars demands and is providedwith three traveling cranes of 12,000 lbs. capacity command the entire central bay, 50 x 200 ft., whichis given up wholly to motor and truck repair and construc-tion work. No pits are used as the motors employed aredesigned
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