Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
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 foreman, who again inspects the bearings at the first opportunityand either replaces them or gives them a new lease of life. All this,it will be understood, is done irrespective of the fact that tin bearing are giving no trouble whatever. The estimated length of life for the parts are determined byprevious aces. In practice, chilled car wheels are esti- mated to run 50.000 miles. Kalamazoo trolley wheels 13.000 mile-. confounded with the storekeepers card index, which is kept atthe general office and is always taken as the official record ofstock. A somewhat unique feature in this plant is thai there are no pitswhatever in the car barn or shops, due to the fact, as alread)pointed out, that excavations made anywhere in the soil in orabout New Orleans quickly fills with seepage water. The officeof pits is therefore taken by elevated tracks. In the main catbarn are seven tracks for the storage of extra cars, two of thesebeing on an incline forming elevated tracks at the rear of the bam
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WHEEL CHANGING hi vn 1 tiions 150,000 miles, gears 250,000 miles, G. E. 800 bearings15,000 miles, G. E. 1,000 bearings 20,000 miles. A car after making45.000 miles is called in to be rcvarnished, and after 180,000 is re-painted. The accounting department reports to the master me-chanic the car mileage each day on the blank shown herewith asA Daily Report of Car Mileage. parlurc from the usual custom is the fact that the general has his office in the main downtown offices of the lom actually visits the storeroom, which is at the for truck and Othei repair Work requiring the men to work underthe cars. The inclined approach to the working part of the ele-vated tracks is about 80 ft. long and the total elevation is about .^ ft. o mi. from the tl to the top of the rail, the actual working portion of the track, of course, being level. Each of the three ele\ ited trad 1 .hi..1. nli t device for lifting and removing armatures mil othei motor parts. This comprises entially a platform 01table m

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