. The street railway review . rom the store-room and shops to the car-houses. As shown in the engraving there is a closed section inthe middle. In this are carried armatures, etc. Shelves are ar-ranged in this section so that glass and other fragile articlescan be handled without danger of being crushed by other ar-ticles. Wheels, oil barrels, castings, etc., are carried on the open and equipped. On one job of track construction some old singletruck cars with W. P. $0 motors, and passenger car bodies, werefitted up as freiglit cars and were used for hauling crushed rock, load
. The street railway review . rom the store-room and shops to the car-houses. As shown in the engraving there is a closed section inthe middle. In this are carried armatures, etc. Shelves are ar-ranged in this section so that glass and other fragile articlescan be handled without danger of being crushed by other ar-ticles. Wheels, oil barrels, castings, etc., are carried on the open and equipped. On one job of track construction some old singletruck cars with W. P. $0 motors, and passenger car bodies, werefitted up as freiglit cars and were used for hauling crushed rock, load that could be carried was 6 tons. At that it wasnothing unusual to have the cars in the barn two or three times aday for repairs. The job had to be hurried; trackmen were idlesometimes on account of cars breaking down; five cars, with fivecrews to operate them, could not deliver material fast two of the special cars were put in service, the five old carswere thrown aside; 40 cu. yd. of crushed rock or sand was de-. OBSERVATION CAR cAUFORNIA. section, from which they can be quickly unloaded. This car hasa Peckham single truck and two G. E. 800 motors. The track department uses seven cars for hauling cars, as can be seen from the illustrations, are arrangedto carry rails, poles, sand, rock, paving blocks, special work, oranything else in the line of track material. These cars are 40 They are equipped with Peckham extra heavy 14-B-3-Strucks, four G. E. 58 motors, air brakes, etc. By leaving the side livered on every trip of these cars; the trips were made in lesstime and at only two-fifths of the previous cost. Some of the suburban roads are very dusty, and it was thoughtadvisable to sprinkle them with oil. A single truck oil tank carwhich was no longer needed for this purpose was fitted up asshown in the accompanying illustration. A pipe runs from thebottom of the tank to the rear end of the car. A T is attachedto it and pipes run to the edges
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