. Electric railway journal . 7 in. deep, flankedon the left by the main stock room, 58 ft. 5 in. wide, and and blacksmith shop, 60 ft. wide, on the right side of thelong machine shop; armature shop, 36 ft. 1 in. wide; dress-ing room, toilet, dining room and construction quarters andemployees kitchen located in line with the short machineshop. 472 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. ii. HANDLING OF CARS AND MATERIAL It is clear from an inspection of the plan that the shoplayout is very well adapted for the logical handling ofmaintenance work. Furthermore, the benefits of this ar-rangement h
. Electric railway journal . 7 in. deep, flankedon the left by the main stock room, 58 ft. 5 in. wide, and and blacksmith shop, 60 ft. wide, on the right side of thelong machine shop; armature shop, 36 ft. 1 in. wide; dress-ing room, toilet, dining room and construction quarters andemployees kitchen located in line with the short machineshop. 472 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. ii. HANDLING OF CARS AND MATERIAL It is clear from an inspection of the plan that the shoplayout is very well adapted for the logical handling ofmaintenance work. Furthermore, the benefits of this ar-rangement have been fully utilized by installing an amplenumber of cranes, hoists and the like. The transfer table ton car body at the rate of in. per second on the foursteel bearers which run on wheels, as shown. Track is continued as far as the blacksmith shop, to whichentrance is obtained by means of a turntable. After the car bodies have been raised the trucks arepushed into the truck-overhauling shop, where the parts of. Hamburg Shops—Interior of Carhouse, Showing Lighting Features, Pit Arrangement, Overhead Conductor Rail, Etc. furnishes communication both to the paint shop with itstwo one-car tracks of flush construction and to the eighttwo-car tracks which pass through the car-body and truck-overhauling sections. The latter tracks extend to withinsome 17 ft. of the line of columns which marks the boun- dismantled cars are transported by a 7J/2-ton crane, therunway of which extends to the end of the miscellaneousmotor shop. Thus the crane carries trucks and motors totheir respective dipping tanks, motors to the motor stands,and wheel axles and other parts to the machine shop. The
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