. The street railway review . ld be a part of his duties as a company seeing how unsatisfactory the old system was, tookan old i8-ft. car body and equipped it with a truck, motors, interior of the car is exposed and each wire can be followedits entire length. There is no floor to the car, so that a plain viewof the motors can be had. Attached to the hood is an ammeter,which is used to illustrate the economy to be obtained in properlyfeeding the controller. The car is blocked up. so that when desired the electric equip-ment can be operated. In addition to this car a platfor
. The street railway review . ld be a part of his duties as a company seeing how unsatisfactory the old system was, tookan old i8-ft. car body and equipped it with a truck, motors, interior of the car is exposed and each wire can be followedits entire length. There is no floor to the car, so that a plain viewof the motors can be had. Attached to the hood is an ammeter,which is used to illustrate the economy to be obtained in properlyfeeding the controller. The car is blocked up. so that when desired the electric equip-ment can be operated. In addition to this car a platform has beenbuilt, upon which we have erected a complete air equipment, asshown in one of the accompanying illustrations for which we areindebted to the Cincinnati Times Star. A motorman can be taughthow to run a car by means of this equipment, and Jie can at thesame time see of just what it is composed. The plan which we now follow, and from which good results arebeing obtained is, after appointment the prospective motorman is. VIEW OF PLATFORM WITH AIR BRAKE APPARATUS. sent to the inspector of motormen, who is in charge of the he is told of the value of the equipment, what careless inoperating it is liable to cost, also the financial loss to the companythrough unnecessary blockades by burn-outs. He is then put on the dummy car and taught how to handle thebrake, how to feed the controller, the use of the bell signals andis then sent to the division to which he has been assigned and puton with a motorman selected by the inspector. Here he gains his knowledge of how to operate under actual con-ditions such as condition of track, stopping and starting, how toapproach vehicles, rounding curves, running over special work,cutting out disabled motors, cutting out disabled controllers, put-ting in fuses, connecting burnt off leads, etc. After the tutor is satisfied that the new man understands how tohandle a car, he is sent back to the school and cross-examined asit were; h
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