. Electric railway journal . xamine your books and the facts sur-rounding your business, and report their conclusions tothe public. Let everybody see just what the conditions are whichyou face and how those conditions react upon the publicwhich you serve. Then, having laid all the cards on thetable, having told your story to the public as best youknow how, go before your regulating bodies and ask forthe relief which you feel in the interest of your serviceyour company ought to obtain. We venture to believethat any such policy carried out boldly, frankly and ag-gressively will achieve results w
. Electric railway journal . xamine your books and the facts sur-rounding your business, and report their conclusions tothe public. Let everybody see just what the conditions are whichyou face and how those conditions react upon the publicwhich you serve. Then, having laid all the cards on thetable, having told your story to the public as best youknow how, go before your regulating bodies and ask forthe relief which you feel in the interest of your serviceyour company ought to obtain. We venture to believethat any such policy carried out boldly, frankly and ag-gressively will achieve results which will be as astonish-ing as they will prove effective. 726 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 16 West Penn Shops and Shop Methods Inter-communicating Telephones, Color Scheme for Shop Furniture, Adequate Provision forUse of Compressed Air and Numerous Shop Kinks Add to the Efficiencyof the Connellsville Shops of This Railway By DANIEL DURIEGeneral Superintendent of Railway Operation, Territory A, West Penn Railways. CONNELLSVILLE SHOPS FIG. 2 GENERAL VIEW OF MILL OF CARPENTER SHOP THAT part of the West Penn Railways system insouthwestern Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Pitts-burgh comprises approximately 240 miles of trackand operates about 215 cars. The principal repair shopsare located at Connellsville. Here some 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 forem
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