. The Street railway journal . FIG. 4.—CAR REPAIR SHOP, SHOWINGMETHOD OF REMOVING ARMATURE FIG. 5. -ARMATURE SHOP, SHOWING ARMATURE HORSES FOR DIFFERENTSIZES OF ARMATURES, ALSO ARMATURE RACK AT LEFT West of the carpenter shop is a building 200 ft. long, 60 and two stories high, with a boiler room and lumber stor-age below and an electroplating room and pattern and cabinet-making shops above. The group of six buildings, already described, is completed bridge, the weight being carried by two box girders, which runthe entire length of the table. Each girder is formed of twoT5-in. I-beams
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 4.—CAR REPAIR SHOP, SHOWINGMETHOD OF REMOVING ARMATURE FIG. 5. -ARMATURE SHOP, SHOWING ARMATURE HORSES FOR DIFFERENTSIZES OF ARMATURES, ALSO ARMATURE RACK AT LEFT West of the carpenter shop is a building 200 ft. long, 60 and two stories high, with a boiler room and lumber stor-age below and an electroplating room and pattern and cabinet-making shops above. The group of six buildings, already described, is completed bridge, the weight being carried by two box girders, which runthe entire length of the table. Each girder is formed of twoT5-in. I-beams and J^-in. plate, which are supported near eachend by two 15-in. I-beams, to which are fastened the bearingsfor the wheels. These wheels have steel tires, and are 48 ins. 432 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 12. in diameter. On the axles of two of them are mounted largegears which engage with pinions at the ends of a long the center of the table and under the platform is mounted. FIG. 7.—ELECTRIC DRYING OVENIN ARMATURE SHOP, WITHTYPE OF ELECTRIC CARHEATER SHOWN ON FLOOR FIG. 8.—VIEW IN ARMATURE SHOP, SHOWING APIRATUS USED FOR WINDING FIELD COILS a 12-A Westinghouse motor whose pinion engages with a largegear on this long shaft for propelling the table. At one end ofthe table is a small house, from which it is operated by meansof a standard controller, current being taken from an overheadwire through an ordinary trolley pole. No brake is used on thetable, dependence being placed on reversing of the controllerfor braking purposes. The table is provided with a live trolleywire, and connection is made at each track with a T-iron, whichis fastened to a trolley wire inside the building. This table made there and the car sent out again. When a car needs gen-eral repairing, however, the car body is sent to the carpentershop, the motors to the armature shop, and the truck to themachine and blacksmith shops. Thecars are assembled there after therepairs are made,
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