. The Street railway journal . revent end play. A piece of 3-in. pipe makes a good shaftto which to clamp wooden pulleys. The latter should bethe proper size to give the required speed. 546 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [VcL. XXXL No. 14. CHANGES IN SHOPS AND SHOP PRACTICE BY THE NEWYORK & QUEENS COUNTY RAILWAY COMPANYDUE TO THE ADOP flON OF ALL-STEEL CARS The Xew York & Queens County Railway Company oper-ates about 74 miles of track in and about Long Island City,which is directly opposite the central part of ManhattanBorough, Xew York. Hitherto the company has run ordi- be confined to the tunnel, i
. The Street railway journal . revent end play. A piece of 3-in. pipe makes a good shaftto which to clamp wooden pulleys. The latter should bethe proper size to give the required speed. 546 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [VcL. XXXL No. 14. CHANGES IN SHOPS AND SHOP PRACTICE BY THE NEWYORK & QUEENS COUNTY RAILWAY COMPANYDUE TO THE ADOP flON OF ALL-STEEL CARS The Xew York & Queens County Railway Company oper-ates about 74 miles of track in and about Long Island City,which is directly opposite the central part of ManhattanBorough, Xew York. Hitherto the company has run ordi- be confined to the tunnel, it being planned to install themgradually on all important lines in Long Island City. All of the rolling stock of the New York & Queens CountyRailway is maintained at the Woodside car house andshops, which are conveniently accessible from every partof the system. As these shops were built long before theday of steel surface cars, the management was confrontedwith the interesting problem of changing over an installa-. FRUNT \IE\V OF THE WO(JI ).SI I IE SHOPS OF THE NEW YORK & QUEENS COUNTY COMPANY, LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. nary wooden surface cars only, but owing to its forthcoming tion designed originally for wooden cars to one that woulduse of the Forty-second Street tunnels of the New Y ork & also handle an ever-increasing number of steel cars. In viewLong Island Railroad Company under the East River all- of the novelty of the problem and the likelihood that steel
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