. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . OTIVE ENGINEERING 135 sit subway lines. In the rush hours it requires from 84to 98 platform men to handle the crowds on the platformat Times Square and from 57 to 77 at Grand fare is still five cents although the average in citiesof 25,000 and over in 1925 was cents and still higherin 1926. A trained personnel and an excellent roadbed contributeto this high operating efficiency, but the greatest factor isundoubtedly the rigid system of inspection and mainte-nance, inspection
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . OTIVE ENGINEERING 135 sit subway lines. In the rush hours it requires from 84to 98 platform men to handle the crowds on the platformat Times Square and from 57 to 77 at Grand fare is still five cents although the average in citiesof 25,000 and over in 1925 was cents and still higherin 1926. A trained personnel and an excellent roadbed contributeto this high operating efficiency, but the greatest factor isundoubtedly the rigid system of inspection and mainte-nance, inspection shops arc located at the principal termi-nals. When a car has been operated 1,000 miles it is thor-oughly inspected and parts adjusted. Major repairs suchas car body repairs are made at the main shops at 147thstreet and Seventh avenue, Manhattan. These shops haverecently been modernized and enlarged and are countedamong the largest and best equipped in the country forhandling car repair work. The main shops are divided as follows: Car shop forlight repairs, air room for air brakes and car air com-. Corner of Light Repair Shop, Interborough Rapid Transit Company pressors, electrical repair shop, machine shop, truck shop,wheel and axle shop, babbitt room, blacksmith shop, carshop for heavy repairs, wood-working mill, paint shop, in-spection shop and the main shop air compressor roomand room for hot water circulating equipment for heatingplant. The light repair shop has eight tracks with pits, eachtrack having capacity for five cars. The pits are heated,lighted and equipped with compressed air lines and powerlines for electrical testing. This shop is served by twooverhead runways with two bridge cranes each. Thesecranes have cages for the operators and an approximatespan of 66 feet with a capacity of 25 tons each. Thelargest overhead monorail system in the country with anextensive switching system serves all shops with six 4-ton capacity cage operated electric hoists. In fact thet
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