. The Street railway journal . being permitted to enter the storeroom except the store-keeper. Each and every article has a lot number, which isstamped on the bin and on the corresponil- ing card kept by the storekeeper. This card is posted daily, and shows the daily,monthly or yearly consvunption. A sys-tem of Lot A and Lot B is kept, and nopart of Lot B is used until Lot A has beenentirely consumed, thereby giving a con-stant check between the stock and thecards. About sixty men are employed on therepair, maintenance and cleaning of theone hundred cars operated. FIO. SIDE OF STOR
. The Street railway journal . being permitted to enter the storeroom except the store-keeper. Each and every article has a lot number, which isstamped on the bin and on the corresponil- ing card kept by the storekeeper. This card is posted daily, and shows the daily,monthly or yearly consvunption. A sys-tem of Lot A and Lot B is kept, and nopart of Lot B is used until Lot A has beenentirely consumed, thereby giving a con-stant check between the stock and thecards. About sixty men are employed on therepair, maintenance and cleaning of theone hundred cars operated. FIO. SIDE OF STOREROOM RECORD CARD CAR HOUSE ANIl SHOPS The main car house and repair shopsare at Poplar Street, on the belt lino,an exterior view of which is shown in 666 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIH. No. i8. Fig. 8. The main storage shed is a steel and galvanizediion structure, the interior and roof construction of whichis shown in Fig. 9. It is 265 ft. x 127 ft., and has a mon-itor roof covered with slate. It contains ten tracks, each. FIG. n. -CARS FOR REMOVAL OF MOTORS AND AIR HOISTCRANES IN REPAIR SHOP a receptacle in which is placed a Watson-Stillman hy-draulic jack, 4 ft. lift. A narrow-gage track runs formthis jack out to the end of the elevated tracks to thesteel air-hoist cranes. The method of operation is as fol-lows: The small car seen in Fig. 11, having an axle on onlyone end, is pushed along the track until the wheels strikea stop, when the small car is in position over the hydraulicjack; the jack is then raised, carrying the board whichforms the top of the truck on top of the jack head, up underthe motor shell to be removed. The bolts are then slackedofif on the motor and the jack lowered until the motor isloaded on to the truck, the jack dropping low enough toclear the truck. The truck, with motor, is then pushed outbeneath the cranes, where the motors are disassembled,cleaned, repaired, assembled and tested. The motor is thenreplaced beneath the car by the reverse operat
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