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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e paint shop occupies the third division of this buildingand contains eight parallel tracks which are crossed at thecenter of the shop by an electric transfer table. Each of theeight tracks is long enough to hold four cars, two on eachside of the transfer table, making the total capacity of theshop thirty-two cars. This shop is often filled with cars tobe either entirely or partially painted, as the company makeit a rule before putting out either the summer or the wintercars to have them all painted so as to look perfectly freshand new. Located in the center between each of the eighttracks are rows of posts about 12 in. square and 6 ft. high.Each of these posts is provided with two swinging bracketswhich may be turned toward either track, one bracket beingabout 2 ft. from the ground and the other near the top ofthe post. By turning these brackets all one way and layinga plank across them a scaffold is formed from which everypart of the car may be reached by the painters. This system \
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INTERIOR OF PAINT SHOP—CONSOLIU.iTED TRACTION CO. ting any kind of molding, a boring machine, a band saw.cross cut circular saw and a circular rip saw which cuts atany bevel up to 45°, a joiner and a 12-ft. turning lathe usedchiefly for turning out drums for controllers. Besides these wood working tools, this shop also containsan edge grinder for planers and joiners, and a Rodgers sawsharpener adapted to either band, cross or rip saws. Themachinery of this department is run by a 50-h. p. Westing-house motor placed in a basement about 10 ft. below theshop floor. This drives a line shaft in the basement towhich the machinery is belted down through the floor. Iniliis shop is done both repairing and also the rompUiebuilding of cars. A number of the Allegheny Traction carswhich were injured by fire last year were entirely rebuilt inthis shop, and several baggage and pay cars have also beenbuilt by the company. The pay cars are handsomely fin-ished both inside and outside, and are run al

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