. Electric railway journal . tersection of steam railroad and electric railwaytracks. Aside from track use, thermit welding has many otheradvantages which the street railway can utilize. Forinstance, every property is more or less troubled withbroken truck frames, car axles, motor cases, power-housemachinery, shop machinery, and very often valuablecastings and forgings are consigned to the junk pile orsent out to be welded when the welding could just aswell be done on the premises. It is a general rule onelectric railways that when an axle is broken it is eitherscrapped or cut up and put to ot
. Electric railway journal . tersection of steam railroad and electric railwaytracks. Aside from track use, thermit welding has many otheradvantages which the street railway can utilize. Forinstance, every property is more or less troubled withbroken truck frames, car axles, motor cases, power-housemachinery, shop machinery, and very often valuablecastings and forgings are consigned to the junk pile orsent out to be welded when the welding could just aswell be done on the premises. It is a general rule onelectric railways that when an axle is broken it is eitherscrapped or cut up and put to other uses. We find hei-ethat by taking the old axles and cutting them so that ourweld will come in the middle, thus getting it awayfrom the old bearing which might be crystallized,we have the stock for a new axle at a cost not exceed-ing $ on a 6-in. axle, which includes labor andmaterials. The average truck frame can be repaired at a cost of$12, not including machine work. 1136 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. TRANSFER TABLE TAKES LONG CAR AND TRACTOR AT SAME TIME Equipment Repairs on Long Island Railroad Fifteen Years Experience in the Maintenance of Heavy Electric RailwayRolling Stock Has Brought About Many Improvements in Methods and Organization ! THE Long Island Railroad substituted electric trac-tion for steam on the first of its lines fifteen yearsago. Since that time the mileage of its electrified lineshas been gradually increased and the volume of com-muter traffic now exceeds all early expectations. Elec-tric operation has proved a successful venture for thisroad and one of the factors which has contributed largelyto its success is the thorough and systematic inspec-tion and repair of car equipment which have been car-ried out. In an article in the Electric Railway Jour-nal for June 10, 1911, the inspection and maintenanceorganization and methods then in use at the MorrisPark shops of the company were described. Sdnce thattime 164 steel multiple-unit m
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