. Electric railway gazette . FIG. 4.—CARPENTER SHOP. The motor repair shop is provided with an electric ele-vator for delivering armature and motors to the machineshops and armature-winding department on the secondfloor of the building. The machine shop is complete inevery respect, and occupies the greater part of west halfof the second floor. The equipment consists of the mostmodern types of machine tools and appliances, all of whichare operated by electric motors. Light is furnished by. FIG 5.—SNOW SWEEPER. large windows on three sides of the room. The armaturewinding is done in the north en
. Electric railway gazette . FIG. 4.—CARPENTER SHOP. The motor repair shop is provided with an electric ele-vator for delivering armature and motors to the machineshops and armature-winding department on the secondfloor of the building. The machine shop is complete inevery respect, and occupies the greater part of west halfof the second floor. The equipment consists of the mostmodern types of machine tools and appliances, all of whichare operated by electric motors. Light is furnished by. FIG 5.—SNOW SWEEPER. large windows on three sides of the room. The armaturewinding is done in the north end of the room. Amplelight for this work is afforded by large windows on theend and side of the room. The department is equippedwith an armature dryer capable of accommodating 15armatures. It consists of a double walled sheet-iron boxabout 12 feet in length and 5 feet in width. The walls arefilled with sand, and heat is furnished by an ordinary carstove. The entire eastern half of the second floor is used as astoreroom, from which the supplies for the whole systemare distributed. For facilitating the handling of the sup-plies a 15-ton electric elevator has been installed. Thecompany owns several freight cars, on which supplies aretransported from the storeroom to the vaiious car houses. The current for operating the motors in the differentdepartments is supplied by a special feeder from the com-panys main power station in River Street, Newark. A complete hot water heating system
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