. The Street railway journal . convenient orders for material are signed by the foremen of the variousdepartments, and are filled by the :tockkeeper. The store room is126 ft. wide and 143 ft. deep. All necessary equipment for theentire system is kept in stock, the small material on the groundfloor and the heavy material in the basement. The basement isalso provided with a large room for the storage of car wheels,extra motors, controllers, etc., and is equipped with a narrow- gage track and overhead travelers for the handling of heavymachinery. For the floor plan of the building
. The Street railway journal . convenient orders for material are signed by the foremen of the variousdepartments, and are filled by the :tockkeeper. The store room is126 ft. wide and 143 ft. deep. All necessary equipment for theentire system is kept in stock, the small material on the groundfloor and the heavy material in the basement. The basement isalso provided with a large room for the storage of car wheels,extra motors, controllers, etc., and is equipped with a narrow- gage track and overhead travelers for the handling of heavymachinery. For the floor plan of the building see the StreetRailway Journal of April 11, 1903. Our road being a small one, of course, we have not the facilitiesfor doing work that perhaps larger roads have. In the motor andtruck department at the main shops on St. Paul Street, we haveeight men. The special tools in this department are two wheelelevators, as shown in Fig. I, one piston air crane and one motorair lift. The wheel elevators are operated by an electric motor. FIG. 3.—ARMATURE HOLDER at the bottom of the pits; the construction of the wheel elevatorsbeing two long vertical screws set in a casting having a facefor two large iron castings, with a section of rail fastened to thetop of them, and working on the screw the same as a large nut,the two sides being connected by a longitudinal shaft with bevelgears on each end. On the floor line of the pit there are two transfer tables, one totake the old wheels and set them to one side, the other to get a / I new pair and bring them on a line with the floor of the pit, wherethey can be placed on the elevator and carried up, directly underthe car and into their place. As you will note by Fig. 2 the air crane is near the wheelelevator, so that we have two ways of taking wheels out of thepits. With this arrangement we are able to take out a pair of oldwheels, replace them with new ones, and have the car ready toleave the building in 40 minutes. The air compressor which fur
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