Electric car maintenance, selected from the Electric railway journal

The articles on " Electric Car Maintenance" have been selected from the columns of the Electric Railway Journal exclusively except that some braking and wiring diagrams were added in order to secure a more extensive series of shop instruction prints. It is believed that this work should find ready acceptance among those who are in charge of the maintenance of electric railway cars because it places in such convenient form a great deal of useful data which hitherto had been lost to most shopmen within a few months after the original publication in periodical form. As a rule, the methods described are such as require no costly apparatus and of a kind which can be applied to a great many situations. Unlike a text-book, a shop practice compilation of this kind remains up to date as long as the equipment described is in use, and even longer, since many of the labor-saving methods are applicable to any form of car equipment.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

CONTENTS

MECHANICAL APPLIANCES FOR TRAIN OPERATION

NON-ELECTRICAL PARTS OF THE CARBODY

BRAKE EQUIPMENTS AND BRAKE RIGGING

TRUCKS, WHEELS AND AXLES

CLEANSING BY DIPPING OR SAND-BLASTING, CAR WASHING, PAINTING AND GLAZING

SANDERS AND SANDING DEVICES, SCRAPERS, BROOMS

LUBRICATION

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