. Canadian transportation & distribution management. ompany, and in pur-suance of that policy built the shops nowin use in Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, to the rearof the Fort Rouge car barns, on a largetract of land connected with the CanadianNorthern Ry. by a siding, and utilized as I beams are supported on concrete footingsthat have a 4 ft. square base. All thedepartments, save the blacksmith, are pavedwith concrete. The erecting shop, which occupies themain portion of the building, openingthrough large car doors to the east, fac-ing on the rear of the car barns, is 150 by50 ft., occupying two bays
. Canadian transportation & distribution management. ompany, and in pur-suance of that policy built the shops nowin use in Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, to the rearof the Fort Rouge car barns, on a largetract of land connected with the CanadianNorthern Ry. by a siding, and utilized as I beams are supported on concrete footingsthat have a 4 ft. square base. All thedepartments, save the blacksmith, are pavedwith concrete. The erecting shop, which occupies themain portion of the building, openingthrough large car doors to the east, fac-ing on the rear of the car barns, is 150 by50 ft., occupying two bays, the northerly The paint shop, fig. 3, occupies thenortherly bay of the building, and is thesame length as the erecting shop, and 25ft. wide. It is arranged to accommodateonly two cars at a time, the rear portionof the shop from which the view in fig. 3was taken, being set out with racks andbenches for the finishing and drying of sashand other removable car parts. In general -y + S i „:„ ^ „.„ | Erecting Shop i —ZS-0 I i c 3 1 Point Shop. .•rting \Milt EE) eB 1 j Fig. I.—Plan of Winnipeg Electric Railway Car Building Shops in Fort Rouge. a storage for such outside material as isused on the lines. The location of theshop in this reservation, alongside the rail-way siding, gives easy access to the hring-ing in of the materials for car construc-tion. A plan of the shops is given in fig. 1,and the different departments in the otherillustrations. The main structure is ofbrick, a 9 in. brick wall resting on a con- one being divided off by a brick wall, Theinterior arrangement is shown in fig. 2,and the plan in fig. 1. In the southeastcorner is the foremans office, from the topof which the view, fig. 2, was taken. Alongthe south side, and on the tracks at thewest end, are sundry carpenters and fittersbenches, for the men fitting the carstogether. The erecting shop has two erecting it reSembles the usual railway varnishroom, for such is most of the work on astreet car. T
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