. The Street railway journal . overhauling and emer-gency repairs, a carpenter shop, electrical repair shop,paint shop, a machine shop sufficient to handle the workof the whole system, and track room enough to hold aworking reserve of rolling stock. In addition, space wasprovided in the same building for the stock room, fromwhich all the supplies of the whole system are issued. The plans of the building show quite plainly thegeneral lay out. The first floor contains the pit room,carpenter shop, paint shop and blacksmith shop, alsotwo machine tools which were too heavy to be carried onthe secon
. The Street railway journal . overhauling and emer-gency repairs, a carpenter shop, electrical repair shop,paint shop, a machine shop sufficient to handle the workof the whole system, and track room enough to hold aworking reserve of rolling stock. In addition, space wasprovided in the same building for the stock room, fromwhich all the supplies of the whole system are issued. The plans of the building show quite plainly thegeneral lay out. The first floor contains the pit room,carpenter shop, paint shop and blacksmith shop, alsotwo machine tools which were too heavy to be carried onthe second floor. On the west side of the building thir-teen double doors open on to as many tracks, which areconnected with a siding from the main line by a transfertable forty feet away from the building. This span of forty feet gives room for acar to stand outside the doors. Inside the building thethree rear tracks extend theentire width, 120 ft., makingthe paint shop. The capa-city here is figured at tencars, and is just enough to. FIG. 1.—VIEWS INCONSOLIDATED served by the cars housedthere. With this subdivisionof the cars comes at oncethe subdivision of repairwork and the question as tohow much of this workshould be centralized in ageneral repair shop for thewhole system. There aretwo general solutions of thequestion, each with as many minor variations as there are roads. Large city roadswith few sheds and a large number of cars in eachare to keep all the work possible at the separatedivisions, sending to a general shop only such work aswinding, belting, fitting wheels, painting, heavy carpen-try, etc. Smaller roads, and those also whose cars aremore widely scattered or whose shed limits are smaller,are apt to gravitate toward the other extreme and sendall repairs as nearly as may be to the main shop. On any road whose rolling stock is at all divided cer-tain work must be done at the car sheds ; the question ofhow much would scarcely be in place here. In the caseof the Consolida
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