Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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been put through theshop and turned out re-equipped according to the new stand-ards. This shop, which is at Thirty-Ninth Street and SecondAvenue, Brooklyn (having been described upon page 954 ofthe issue for Dec. 13, 1902), has eight longi-tudinal tracks, each 475 ft. long, which givesa capacity for working upon seventy cars atone time. Two tracks are equipped with pitsfor access to the running gear and under partsOf the cars. This new shop installation em-braces also a large and well-appointed wood-working shop, a blacksmith shop and a ma-chine shop. At the present time over 500men are employed at this shop. It has been planned in the work of recon-struction to standardize all parts of the equip-ment of cars as is possible without too seri-ously changing the construction of any car.The interior finish of various cars differwidely, and it is not intended to carry the.work of reconstruction so as to remodelfeatures of this nature, but the detailsand arrangements of platform equipments,
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OPPOSITE SIDE OF CAR, SHOWING ADDITIONAL INTERESTING DETAILS OFTHE RECONSTRUCTION WORK associated several surface lines, including the Brighton Beach Railroad,the Sea Beach Railroad, the Culver line, etc. These systemswere all formerly operated by steam, and in the change to elec-tric traction practically all of the steam-line passenger coacheshave been retained, either as trailers or re-equipped with mo-tors for electric operation, the result of which has been tobring a conglomerate mass of equipment of a number of dif-ferent types, requiring unusually heavy work of maintenanceand imposing the greatest possible difficulty in repairs. Theformer rolling-stock equipment of the elevated lines, which isunder reconstruction, involves fifteen different types of cars,including cars from the Bradley, Gilbert, Jewett, Brill andPullman shops for the old Brooklyn Union Elevated, and fromthe Harlan & Hollingsworth, the Wason and Pullman shopsfor the Kings County line. These cars are dated upo

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