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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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ailway Journal 183 3 in. wide were welded to the plate supporting the endsof the rails, to prevent the heads of the old rails fromcracking and breaking off, which frequently happenswhen the supports are not used. In connection with the welding work, a new type ofportable turnout and passing track has been developedin St. Louis to prevent welding on single track frominterfering with car schedules. This construction isportable as an assembled unit. Whenever the joints in-side the turnout are completed, one car of the welding New Shop Equipment for D. U. R. In connection with its extensive shop development atHighland Park, the Detroit (Mich.) United Railway,will install the following equipment: One No. 2 Hilles& Jones single-end power punch with a throat depth of30 in. and a capacity of punching a 1-in. hole through1-in. material; one No. 6 Bertsch & Company i-in. platebending roll; one 3-ft. x 9-ft. Ferguson oil-burning fur-nace for heating material for the bulldozer; one No. 28
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Fig. 4—Welding machine at work on a compression joint.Fig. 5—Rail grinder smoothing off a completed joint.Fig. 6—Rail chair construction with 6-in. rail replacingsection. Fig. 7—Welded insert joint or dutchman with special supportfor head of rail. Fig. 8—Portable turnout and passing track for single-trackwelding work. INSTALLING THE NEW-TYIE WKI.DIOD JOINTS ON UNITED RAILWAYS TRACKS equipment is attached to each end of the portable trackand it is dragged to the next point where welding is tobe done. In one instance a mile of temporary trolleywire was strung at one side of the permanent over-head and thus the delay due to shifting of the turnoutwas minimized and the cost was kept down. The compression joint described herein was inventedby E. S. Clark and patented by him in May, 1918. Mr.Clark is engineer of construction for the contractors forthe work being done in St. Louis. Williams-White motor-driven bulldozer; one BuffaloForge Company No. 9 armor plate bar cutter; one Hil

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