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.
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e work of repairs toa single gang of experienced strippers, with those resultingfrom the possibility of the shop foreman to thus carefully in-spect the equipment, as it is removed, and determine the char-acter and extent of repair work needed upon each part. Thiscombined stripping and inspection process is the regular pro-cedure in car and locomotive repair work upon steam railroads,being there also found to offer many advantages in that betterfacilities are provided in this way for examining the equipmentthan can in any other way be obtained. The location of thestripping room in a convenient and well lighted room makesboth stripping and inspection process much more convenientthan if this work were done upon one of the tracks in the erect-ing shop, where equal lighting facilities could not possibly beobtained. In addition, the dust and dirt that naturally risesfrom the stripping process is in this way kept confined entirelyto one room, and thus is not liable to spread to other depart-
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VIEW IN THE TRUCK DEPARTMENT OF THE NEW REPAIR S UNITED RAILWAY COMPANY ments, as, for instance, the paint shop, where it would interferewith the work and be liable to do considerable damage. The next step in the work of the mechanical repairs is thatof removing the car body from the truck and delivering it tothe erecting shop for repairs, and the truck and its equipmentto the truck shop. On account of the fact that in.many classesof equipment used in this city the trucks are entirely inter-changeable, it is possible to transfer a body which is to undergorepairs onto another truck which has previously been gone overand repaired, and thus permit the body to be moved about theshop upon a completed truck equipment. Another method ofprocedure is to deliver the car body to the erecting shop upona dummy truck and the truck proper to the truck shop for re-pairs independent of the work upon the car body. THE TRUCK SHOP A representative illustration is presented above of the in-terior of the t

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