. Railway age gazette . Plan Showing Arrangement of the Locomotive Shop was begun February 9, 1914, three years from the time actualfield work began. The acquisition about that titne of control of the Boston &Maine by the New York, New Haven & Hartfoid introduced anew feature in the problems to be solved and it was determinedto co-ordinate or combine the shop facilities of the various roadsmaking up the New England Lines. A careful study and ex-haustive report on the shop situation was made by A. B. Corthell. ments of six per month. The record of repairs passing throughthe shops indicated one-
. Railway age gazette . Plan Showing Arrangement of the Locomotive Shop was begun February 9, 1914, three years from the time actualfield work began. The acquisition about that titne of control of the Boston &Maine by the New York, New Haven & Hartfoid introduced anew feature in the problems to be solved and it was determinedto co-ordinate or combine the shop facilities of the various roadsmaking up the New England Lines. A careful study and ex-haustive report on the shop situation was made by A. B. Corthell. ments of six per month. The record of repairs passing throughthe shops indicated one-third first and second class repairs,necessitating firebox and heavy boiler work and extraordinarymachinery repairs; two-thirds, third class repairs; leaving classfour and five repairs to be taken care of at roundhouses. On the Boston & Maine there were 2,100 passenger cars, in-cluding those on order. On account of the constant use of carsit was necessary to provide shop capacity to put the whole equip-. Tire Setting House and IVIonorail Hoist Runway from the Tire House to the Locomotive Shop chief engineer. The essential features of this report being asfollows: Number of locomotives on Boston & Maine in 1911 1,261 Average annual increase for 5 years 11 Average taken out of service for 5 years 36 Net annual increase 41 Anticipated ownership, 1913 1,343 Shop output per month on Boston & Maine 90 ment through for all classes of repairs in seven months, or 300per month. To avoid an accumulation of bad order freightcars it was deenjed necessary to provide for 2,300 cars per following tabulation showed the then and anticipated out-put per month of Boston & Maine equipment, and the Billericashops requirements to balance the work. This does not take into November, 1914 RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE, MECHANICAL EDITION 563 consideration tlie possible release of locomotives by electricoperation: Locomotives Passenger Cars Freight Cars Shop , * V r ^^^— ^ , * V Location Present Pr
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