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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here is something remarkable about it. It apparently strikes most persons as singular that men of ma-ture years, of at least average intelligence and of physical sound-iiuld be sent to school to learn the A. B, Cs of a businessbefore they are permitted to engage in it Such, however, is the ous object- of interest that are intended and expected to teach some extremely practical lessons that will prove useful to the studentslater in life. Along one side of the long narrow room in the Sulli-van Sq. terminal, in which the school 1- domiciled, is a skeleton,tliree-car. dummy train fully equipped with every piece of apparatusand equipment essential to the running of an electric elevated train,except trucks. It is no toy model, but is to all practical intents andpurposes, an anatomical exhibition of a train with the skin removed.The controlling apparatus, motors, air and hand brakes, couplings,uol indeed, every piece of mechanism used on an actual train, is in-stated and is in working order.
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SKELETON TRAIN IN SCHOOLROOM practice ompany in the ca-e of men who enter its elevated train service. The course of instruction for an quite differ- ent from that prescribed for a surface-car man for the reason thatthe du neral prim ibed in thorough drill on the rubs, and final examination and demonstraHon before full appoint! dike in boih bra time pr and finally become motormen. Po of tru ing of examina inn a graded school with pu; idvanccment, and like son find immediate employment for alllificatr of I The school is • in a ban- looking room, lacking the lommeni ti I pari of thi equipn bill it contains numcr- 1 this train new men and candidates for promol an down use and o) devices. 1 he) learn ind put a train in ordei 0 tal t of tl 1 1 1 i 1 1 ipi ral and ho« to n spond to thi nals, what io do iii emergencies, and 1 up a train when it is hauled ofl thi main line It is not met elj .1 matter 1 if goingthrough the motion rhen 1 no make believi about anythitcepl the motion of the tra

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