. The Street railway journal . s of this machine rails of any sizeare readily bent to any arc by passing them repeatedlythrough the rollers. The rails are handled and adjusted bypneumatic hoists. On the first floor of the wood shop are suspended rackson which the track tools and other repair tools, includingthe shovels, picks, buckets, hammers and hoes are careful record is kept of these, and each gang is chargedthe kits taken out. The rules require that all tools be September, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 569 returned and delivered to the keeper when each job isfinished. This preve
. The Street railway journal . s of this machine rails of any sizeare readily bent to any arc by passing them repeatedlythrough the rollers. The rails are handled and adjusted bypneumatic hoists. On the first floor of the wood shop are suspended rackson which the track tools and other repair tools, includingthe shovels, picks, buckets, hammers and hoes are careful record is kept of these, and each gang is chargedthe kits taken out. The rules require that all tools be September, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 569 returned and delivered to the keeper when each job isfinished. This prevents the tools being lost. In this connection it is interesting to note that all theaxes and picks employed on the lines are manufactured inthe blacksmith shop of the company. REMODELED ELECTRIC TRANSFER CAR A transfer car has recently been remodeled in the repairshop of the Chicago City Railway Company. It is illus-trated in Fig. 8, and is now working in a much more satis-factory manner than formerly. The original equipment of. FIG. 9.—STANDARD SINGLE TRUCK CAR this car was an S. R. G. No. 30 electric motor, andwound for 500 volts circuit. The new equipment consistsof a No. 3 Westinghouse, 25 motor, operated by thetype K-2 controller, and in series with the armature are twocar rheostats. There is also a two-panel rheostat, ar-ranged in series with the field circuit and designed to choke a lever and system of friction clutches a drum is operatedon which a rope is wound. This rope leads out onto theplatform between two stationary iron pulleys, and is util-ized for hauling cars on or off from the table. Triangularpieces of track are employed to lead up to the top of thetable. NEW CAR Tig. 9 illustrates the new standard closed car designedby the Chicago City Railway Company. This car wasbriefly described in the July issue, and sixty have recentlybeen ordered from the St. Louis Car Company. The coloris seven shades of olive green. The body is 20 ft. long andthe car is 30 ft.
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