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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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tock keeper on his books. In the rear of the house and extending over part of thenorth bay is the office of the car house foreman and largelunch, locker and toilet rooms for the exclusive use of thecar house employees. In the lunch room are benches andtables for the use of the employeesduring lunch hour. Off of it is thelocker room containing separate steellockers for each employee in whichto keep their clothes and a well-equipped toilet and wash room. Thisroom is in charge of an attendant ^tall times and the men are required touse it when beginning and quittingwork. Employees are not allowed tokeep clothing or lunch in the carhouse buildings. INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCEPRACTICE The system of inspection and main-tenance at the five car barns of thecompany is substantiallv the same.The operation of the system at theSeventy-seventh Street car house,where, approximately, 600 cars arestored, will be described here as typi-cal. Cars coming into the house atthe end of a run proceed down Vin-
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FIG. 4.—REAR OF OLD CAR HOUSE OF THE CHIC.\GO CITY RAILWAY separated by fire walls from the adjoining storage bay.Part of this storage space is two stories high. A completestock of car repair parts and supplies is carried; this ma-terial is ordered from the shop storeroom on rerpiisitionsmade by the car house foreman. It is issued to the carhouse inspectors and rcjjairmen without requisition other cennes Road to Seventy-eighth Street and turn east on therunning track south of the shop buildings to Wentworth.Vvenue, which is at the rear of the old car house. Underthe direction of three car placers, who have charge of twoliays each, they are assigned to a given track and run in.Ihe motornian makes a verbal statement to the car placer 6oo STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXL No. 15. of any defects on his car before leaving it. The car placerkeeps a record as shown in Fig. 5, giving the car numbersin the order in which they were run in on the several tracksunder his direction. On the back

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