. Electric railway journal . ome of the cars havebeen built, and the rebuild-ing and overhauling of thecars of the entire systemare handled at these accompanying dia-gram, Fig. 1, shows thegeneral shop layout. Thisconsists of a paint shop, acarpenter shop, a black-smith shop, a repair andmachine shop, an armaturerepair shop, a storage car-house and an operatingcarhouse. The shops arewired throughout with 110-volt extension cordplug sockets, so that by us-ing a 25-ft. cord it is possi-ble to get a light at prac-tically any part of the also provides a meansof driving sma
. Electric railway journal . ome of the cars havebeen built, and the rebuild-ing and overhauling of thecars of the entire systemare handled at these accompanying dia-gram, Fig. 1, shows thegeneral shop layout. Thisconsists of a paint shop, acarpenter shop, a black-smith shop, a repair andmachine shop, an armaturerepair shop, a storage car-house and an operatingcarhouse. The shops arewired throughout with 110-volt extension cordplug sockets, so that by us-ing a 25-ft. cord it is possi-ble to get a light at prac-tically any part of the also provides a meansof driving small portablemachines equipped with al-ternating-current the shops and the gen-eral foremans office areconnected with an inter-communicating telephone system which has proved to be a great timesaver. Another practical idea that has been carried out iathe shop color scheme. All the walls are painted whiteor gray, but the furniture, that is, the ladders, woodenjigs, patterns and the like, are painted a different color. in each shop. A great deal of the furniture is hungon the wall when not in use. This apparatus is all num-bered, and the corresponding numbers are placed onthe wall so that it is an easy matter for a workman toreturn an article to its proper place after he has finished with it. To keep the mate-rial off the floor and facili-tate transfer from one shopto another, standard fac-tory trucks are used. Thesetrucks are also painted toindicate the shop in whichthey belong. This doesaway with a great deal ofunnecessary labor, as thetrucks are kept in theirproper places, and when notin use are always withineasy reach of the will be noted that thestoreroom is centrally lo-cated so that it can be con-veniently reached from allthe shops. CONNELLSVILLE SHOPS- Paint Shop The paint shop was de-signed and built during thesummer of 1912. It is amodern building 54 ft. x153 ft., of brick and rein-forced concrete construc-tion and arranged to ac-commodate six 55-ft.
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