. Canadian transportation & distribution management. he St. Denis Streetline. The plant consists of a main buildingand several minor buildings at pointsaround it, the majority having a direct con-nection, making an admirable arrangementfor intercommunication in cold plant, looking at the south and northsides, is shown in figs. 1 and 2, respectively,and the plan of the shops and grounds, withapproaches, in fig. 3. The dimensions of the main building areapproximately 425 ft. long by 269 ft. wide. length of the runway. The sides of themonitor have swing sashes, operated fromone end by
. Canadian transportation & distribution management. he St. Denis Streetline. The plant consists of a main buildingand several minor buildings at pointsaround it, the majority having a direct con-nection, making an admirable arrangementfor intercommunication in cold plant, looking at the south and northsides, is shown in figs. 1 and 2, respectively,and the plan of the shops and grounds, withapproaches, in fig. 3. The dimensions of the main building areapproximately 425 ft. long by 269 ft. wide. length of the runway. The sides of themonitor have swing sashes, operated fromone end by a shaft. The front section of the shop is whatmay be termed the motive power section,as all the repairs to the running gear andmotors are attended to in it. This part ofthe shop is further subdivided into sixsub sections—car hoists, overhauling sec-tion, wheel and axle, shop, bla ksmith shop,machine shop, and armature shop, all theseseveral departments centering on the over-hauling department, located down thecentre of this half of the Fig. 2.—Montreal Tramways Co.^ New Plant, looking at the North Side. Essentially, the main building consists oftwo units under the one roof, the twosections being separated by a transfer tabledown the centre between the two parts. Inthis particular, the shops are unique, thepractice of covering in the transfer tablenot being usual. In the peculiar climatic con-ditions with which the rolling stock de-partment is called upon to cope, an outsidetransfer table would be the source of a greatdeal of trouble from blocking up with snowin winter. The transfer table, fig. 4, 70 ins. wide, operates in a runway 346 , which contains three standard gaugetracks, laid with 80 lb. rails, on which thetable operates. The motive power is asmall, discarded electric railway motor,mounted on a projecting platform of thetransfer table, and operated by a con- Cars to be overhauled enter the buildingby the doors at either end, the principalentr
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