. The Street railway journal . ed in the basement, including thetimber and all finished parts kept on hand. CAPACITY OF SHOPS During last year 140 cars and eighteen plows passed throughthese shops. Of these forty-nine cars were rebuilt throughout,including eighteen single-truck passenger cars, twenty-eightdouble-truck passenger cars, two single-truck summer cars andone double-truck freight car. Ninety-one cars were repairedand repainted, three plows were rebuilt and fifteen plows re-paired, making a total of 158 equipments cared for. There was,cf course, much repair work of small parts, includ
. The Street railway journal . ed in the basement, including thetimber and all finished parts kept on hand. CAPACITY OF SHOPS During last year 140 cars and eighteen plows passed throughthese shops. Of these forty-nine cars were rebuilt throughout,including eighteen single-truck passenger cars, twenty-eightdouble-truck passenger cars, two single-truck summer cars andone double-truck freight car. Ninety-one cars were repairedand repainted, three plows were rebuilt and fifteen plows re-paired, making a total of 158 equipments cared for. There was,cf course, much repair work of small parts, including the re-placing and repairing of coils, brushes and commutators, inaddition to the overhauling of the car bodies and trucks. The company has rebuilt nearly all of its old cars and hasadded a large number of new equipments. The old i6-ft. carswere cut in two and spliced into 28-ft. car bodies. The newcars for city service are 30 ft. long, and some of these are pro-vided with cross seats and others with longitudinal seats. In. 554 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 15. the new cars rattan seats have been adopted, but in some ofthe old cars which have been made over a special wooden seatlias been provided. A sample of the work turned out by this shop is shown in theaccompanying illustrations of a car which was recently com-pleted. This car, No. 459, which occupies a conspicuous posi-tion in the picture of the carpenter shop. Fig. 3, is also shownin completed form in Figs. 11 and 12, which are exterior andinterior views of the same coach. The company has also turned out some very attractive specialwork in the form of cars for sul)urban service and for freight MANAGEMENT OF PARK ATTRACTIONS.
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