. The Street railway journal . y the company are required to present aneat and tidy appearance, and before they are admitted to thetraining school they are examined by the companys who have successfully passed the physical exam-ination are allowed to fill out an application blank and are ad- plained. The men are also taught how to cut out a disabledmotor and how to manipulate the reverse. The school isequipped with an operative skeleton car jacked up from thetrack so that the wheels may spin even more freely than theywould on the road. At this period the men enter upon the mo
. The Street railway journal . y the company are required to present aneat and tidy appearance, and before they are admitted to thetraining school they are examined by the companys who have successfully passed the physical exam-ination are allowed to fill out an application blank and are ad- plained. The men are also taught how to cut out a disabledmotor and how to manipulate the reverse. The school isequipped with an operative skeleton car jacked up from thetrack so that the wheels may spin even more freely than theywould on the road. At this period the men enter upon the most difficult part oftheir education. On the road they must be able not only torun their cars in a manner which would be a credit to them,but they must also be able to do slight repairing wheneveroccasion may require. Accidents of all kinds may happen andthey must be able to cope with them. Before they graduatethey are placed on the skeleton car and instructed how to op-erate the apparatus of which they are in charge and how to. SKELETON CAR—MONTREAL SCHOOL FOR EMPLOYEES mitted to the school. Each recruit is assigned to one of thedummy car platforms in the school room, which are fitted withcontroller, brake, gong and sand lever. During the few dayspassed on the dummy platform the prospective motorman istaught how to start his imaginary car without hurling the pas-sengers from their seats, and how to stop gradually underordinary circumstances, and quickly in case of advisability of turning the controller handle on one pointat a time, also the limit of time on each point, is forcibly im-pressed on the .students. In order that the men may becomefamiliar with the conductors signals, the chief instructor con-veys his orders by means of an ordinary car bell. When theyhave become familiar with the working of the controller andbrake, they are then taught something about the mysteries ofelectricity. The casing of a controller is opened so they may^ce how it is constructed
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