. The Street railway journal . FIG. 3.—FRONT ELEVATION AND SECTION OF CAR HOUSE between the tracks is lower than the level of the tracks by 20ins. to 24 ins. The pits are 4 ft. 8 ins. deep. The object ofhaving the floor lower than the track instead of flush with it asis usual is to facilitate work on the sides of the trucks. Withthis arrangement it is not necessary for aman to lie down to work at the side of atruck. It is a commendable feature and onewhich could be adopted with profit more gen-erally than it is. The arrangement of pitscan be seen both from the sectional eleva-tion, Fig. 3, and
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 3.—FRONT ELEVATION AND SECTION OF CAR HOUSE between the tracks is lower than the level of the tracks by 20ins. to 24 ins. The pits are 4 ft. 8 ins. deep. The object ofhaving the floor lower than the track instead of flush with it asis usual is to facilitate work on the sides of the trucks. Withthis arrangement it is not necessary for aman to lie down to work at the side of atruck. It is a commendable feature and onewhich could be adopted with profit more gen-erally than it is. The arrangement of pitscan be seen both from the sectional eleva-tion, Fig. 3, and from the view taken in oneend of the repair shop, Fig. 4. The central part of the shop is devotedto machine tools, which are arranged on thewall on either side of the track runningthrough the middle. The general arrange-ment is shown clearly, both in Fig. 1, whichgives a general view, and in Fig. 5, which isa view of the central portion of the shop,with the machine tools and the central trackgiven especial prominence. The c
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