The Street railway journal (1905) (14758149521)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo251905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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largecar repair shop is the moving of cars into the shop and out,when completed, and the shifting to various departments orlocations, as is required for facilitating the work; this, if easilyaccomplished, is often of great assistance in the work. Evenin the case of electric railway cars, it is not always possible tomove them by their own power, owing to repairs under wayupon their motor equipments, while the practice of movingthem about by means of a steam locomotive or of retaining astandard motor car out of service for this purpose is undesir-able in many ways, involving, in the former case, serious firerisks and the troublesome boiler maintenance problem, and, inthe latter, the tieing-up of a comparatively large investmentwhere it is not warranted. Special motor cars have been, invarious instances, designed for this work, but none has metthe requirements as well as does the interesting electric locomo-tive illustrated below. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, since the opening of
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END VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, SHOWING WIDERUNNING-BOARD AND AMPLE PROVISION OF RAILINGSAND GRAB-HANDLES FOR SWITCHMEN its large elevated division repair shops at Thirty-Ninth Streetand Third Avenue, Brooklyn, and the inauguration of the workof reconstruction of its elevated rolling stock, has met theabove problem in an aggravated form. This large shop, as wasreferred to in the article descriptive of the reconstruction workin the Aug. 13, 1904, issue of this journal, has eight longitudinaltracks, which will accommodate upward of 100 cars, aboutseventy being kept there under repairs all the time; from thisand the fact that eight to ten completed cars are turned out perweek, an idea may be gained of the magnitude of the work car-ried out at this shop and of the amount of shifting of carswhich naturally arises. This problem proved to be of such im-portance in the furtherance of the shop work that an interest-ing departure was made in the building of an electric locomo-tive especial