. Electric railway journal . Chicago Railways Shops—Detail of Roof Girder—Carpenterand Paint Shop leather for supporting car cables. About 3000 ft. of this strapis used each month. Canvas is cut and folded into four-plyabout 1 in. wide and then sewed with two rows of material is said to be more satisfactory than leather be-cause it has a longer life when subject to wheel wash. Two men are employed in the sign shop stenciling destina-tion signs and run numbers. Very favorable results are ob-tained with destination signs made of white cloth glued overlight wooden frames. The wordi
. Electric railway journal . Chicago Railways Shops—Detail of Roof Girder—Carpenterand Paint Shop leather for supporting car cables. About 3000 ft. of this strapis used each month. Canvas is cut and folded into four-plyabout 1 in. wide and then sewed with two rows of material is said to be more satisfactory than leather be-cause it has a longer life when subject to wheel wash. Two men are employed in the sign shop stenciling destina-tion signs and run numbers. Very favorable results are ob-tained with destination signs made of white cloth glued overlight wooden frames. The wording is indicated by white let-. Chicago Railways Shops—General Cross Section of Paint Shop color are applied and the gold-leaf decorations are placed. Plaingold-leaf striping is applied with rollers. For all lettering andmonograms on the cars duplex or double-paper Meyercordtransfers are used. After the lettering and decorations havebeen applied two coats of body varnish are spread with 24hours time intervening. The interiors of the cars are cherrywood stained mahogany color and rubbed down to a deadfinish. In fitting up cars a large amount of beading is used becauseno old beading is put back. Before beading is placed it isdipped in a long trough, then pulled through a plush wiper ters on a black background. On a great many cars where theroutes are not changed these destination signs are used in placeof the roller signs and an economy in maintenance transportation department requires nearly 5000 run num-bers each year. These are iron disks about 6 in. in diameterpainted black and showing a white number
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