. The Street railway journal . ELYRIA CAR SHOPS, CLEVELAND & SOUTIIWKSTKKN. DETAIL OF PITS, ELYRIA SHOPS say, the work performed by workmen laying on their backs insnow and water, with weather hovering around zero, was not ofa character calculated to give the highest class of service, andwhile the directors of the roads themselves probably could notunderstand why their maintenance expenses were high, an ex-perienced manager could doubtless have demonstrated the situa-tion in short order. It is almost invariably the case that when aninexperienced lot of men build an electric road and buy goodro
. The Street railway journal . ELYRIA CAR SHOPS, CLEVELAND & SOUTIIWKSTKKN. DETAIL OF PITS, ELYRIA SHOPS say, the work performed by workmen laying on their backs insnow and water, with weather hovering around zero, was not ofa character calculated to give the highest class of service, andwhile the directors of the roads themselves probably could notunderstand why their maintenance expenses were high, an ex-perienced manager could doubtless have demonstrated the situa-tion in short order. It is almost invariably the case that when aninexperienced lot of men build an electric road and buy goodrolling stock, they labor under the delusion that it should notwear out for a long time to come and they see no reason forproviding elaborate shop layouts at the start. The experiencedoperator knows that the old saying of a stitch in time savesnine, is nowhere more applicable than in caring for the rollingstock of a traction line. If the equipment is allowed to run down,even for a very short period, it is difficult to get it back to itsoriginal efficiency and it depreciate
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