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Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ther featureworth noting is the report that the continuous woodenstringer type of construction has given the best serviceof the three types of construction under test. It leadsus back to the old horse-car and early electric railwaydays, when the wood stringer was used almost uni-versally to support the rails. The experiments in question will be followed withgreat interest, not only by steam road engineers butalso by those interested in electric railways, particularlybecause it is reported that the new types of constructionhave so far been maintained for about 5 per cent of themaintenance cost of adjacent tracks of regular ballastedconstruction, on the same line, under the same trafficand built at the same time. It would seem thatsuch a saving in maintenance will justify the addedcost for the new construction, although we have no in-formation as to the cost, which must have been at leastthree or four times as great as regular ballasted track. 218 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 5
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February 1, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 219 What Freight Handling on EKequires^and Costs Electric Railways Have a Dras-tic Need of Adequate FreightTerminals, and MechanicalFreight - Handling DevicesShould Supplant Brute-PowerDevices in the Interest of Scien-tific and Economical Manage-ment—V a 1 u a b 1 e OperatingData Are Given for Electricand Steam Line Freight Houses TO GIVE man-size freightservice upon electric rail-ways, proper station build-ings, track layouts and other fa-cilities must be provided. More-over, in many instances it is nec-essary for the company to assist inlocating grain elevators, coal yards, lumber yards, stock yards, and loading chutes.Each station site should include a plot of land, say 300ft. x 2000 ft., to permit the offering of attractive long-term leases for grain elevators and the like. The standard station building of one progressive roadis a brick, concrete and steel structure, 101 ft. x 22 ft.As nearly all passenger stations on this line are combi

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