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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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er to be sure of thefoundation. The sand was hauled in side-dump carsoriginally purchased for hauling garbage for the city,dumped as near the fill as possible, and then shoveled ormoved hydraulically into the holes. Wherever walls oc-curred that were sufficiently solid, they were not re-moved. While the filling-in process was going on thework was flooded to aid the settlement, and at someplaces planks were laid down over the trackway and thefill was compressed with a 10-ton roller. The space out-side the trackway was also flooded so that the weight ofthe roller would force the sand into voids, as it wasdesired to control the foundation over a strip 10 ft. out-side the right-of-way. On the new foundation the concrete slab for the east-bound track was laid, and this construction was com-pleted all the way through before the old tracks weredisturbed. Eastbound traffic was then operated overthe new track, leaving the former eastbound track free 610 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 13
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10. Cutting away the old concrete to free the rails, and new ties ready to receive rail. 11. Shop compressors used in tamping track. 12. Prying the rail over to new track location. 13. Cleaning off the old cement on the rails. 14. Boring the screw spike holes. 15. Driving home a screw ppke 16. Track jacked up ready for tamping. 17. Wetting the tamping material and washing it under the ties 18. Track tamped and blocked laterally in alignment ready for concreting. 19. Pneumatic tampers prove especially effective on special work Photographic Description of Chicago Track Construction Methods (Continued) March 30, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 611 for the use of work and material cars. As the sub-grade construction work for the new westbound tracksprogressed the rails of the old eastbound track wereshifted, in good condition, over onto the new ties andfoundation. Finally upon the completion of the secondtrack, westbound car service was transferred to thisand the old westbound track torn up

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