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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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osed to install taping machines suchas are used by the Chicago City Railway Co. for this work. Sev-eral Detroit machines are now used for retaping field ctiils. In the truck shop a lo-ton air hoist has been installed by the North-ern Knginecring Works, to be used in connection with the Magannair storage system for hoisting cars or trucks. The hoist runs on anoverhead I-beam track extending Ihe entire length of the shop atthe rear. Smaller hoists serve the 15 tracks that enter the truckshop from the transfer table platform. It is possible to raise acar, remove the truck and put another in place in 12 minutes. Thetruck shop also contains six 65-ft. pits. The plant is divided into seven principal departments, with twominor ones, each under a foreman, and there are at this time about390 employes. The entire plain is 633 ft. long. It coniprises two buildings builton both sides of an open area through which a transfer table isoperated, serving the dififerent shops and the 20 or more storage
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Df:TR(lIT CAK A.Nlt KKIAIK SHOlS. suburban. It is not drawn to scale, but it is so arranged that incase of fire or accident it can be readily seen at a glance how theroutes may be changed for the time being without seriously inter-fering with schedules. AI)OUt a year ago the Detroit United Ry. purchased the old Pull-man repair shops located on the block bounded by St. Anbin andMonroe Avcs., De Quindre and Macomb Sts., of which a generaldescription was published in the Daily Review for Oct. II, 1902.As shown by the accompanying plans these shops arc exceptionallywell arranged and very commodious. The shops arc in charge ofMr. Sylvester Potter, master mechanic. There is now being installed an alternating-current transformerfor testing armature fields and coils. At present tests for groundsare made by Ihe voltmeter method by means of a portable tester,and a milli-vollmelcr is used to lest commutator segments for shortcircuit. As rapidly as possible all Ihe suburban cars are beingbrought

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