. Electric railway journal . ,000. A complete elimination oflabor turnover would mean the saving of this greatsum. The Detroit (Mich.) United Railway is overhaulingand painting from 95 to 125 cars per month. Thismeans that the paint shop force is working on aboutforty cars at a time. The work will be continued untilall rolling stock is in first-class condition. Portable Stone Crusher Saves CostEvery Year Omaha Company Crushes 935 of Stone in aPeriod of Six Months at an ActualSaving of $1,500 THE Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway, Omaha,Neb., has for the past five years been using in
. Electric railway journal . ,000. A complete elimination oflabor turnover would mean the saving of this greatsum. The Detroit (Mich.) United Railway is overhaulingand painting from 95 to 125 cars per month. Thismeans that the paint shop force is working on aboutforty cars at a time. The work will be continued untilall rolling stock is in first-class condition. Portable Stone Crusher Saves CostEvery Year Omaha Company Crushes 935 of Stone in aPeriod of Six Months at an ActualSaving of $1,500 THE Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway, Omaha,Neb., has for the past five years been using inits maintenance-of-way department a portable stonecrusher manufactured by the Universal Crusher Com-pany, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This equipment has beenused to crush vitrified brick, old concrete, and othermaterials formerly considered of no value and hauledto the dump. Several years ago the railway company was obligedto lay 1 mile of double track in a street already pavedwith brick. All of the brick removed during the con-. OLD CONCRETE SALVAGED BY PORTABLE STONECRUSHER AT OMAHA struction, a total of 2,300 , was run through thecrusher on the job at an average rate of 60 perten-hour day with a force of ten or eleven men. Thecrushed brick was used as a coarse aggregate for thenew concrete and also as ballast. As ballast the brickhas given excellent service during the past four the first six months of 1918 the Omaha Companycrushed 935 of material at a cost of 72 cents percubic yard in place, while at the same time crushedstone in the pile cost about $ per cubic yard. Thisrepresents a saving of approximately $1,500. Theoriginal cost of the machine was $1,200, so that theoutfit has paid for itself many times over since pur-chased. The average amount of material crushed peryear at Omaha is 1,200 In Omaha old concrete, brick, etc., when not requiredfor immediate use, is stacked at the yards, and duringthe winter months when the men have little
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