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Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ces at a depth of a foot belowthe surface, and the trench has usually to be keptpumped out. Upon the subsoil, which is a black allu-vium, is placed a flooring of one inch cypress boardseight feet eight inches wide and extending the wholelength of the track. Upon this planking is placed fourinches of Rosetta or Bartlett gravel which concretes underpressure. The flooring and concreted gravel form a suffi-cient bearing for the ties which, in turn, support the for lifting each stone,longitudinal 5 in. X April, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 217 stringers and the rail. Ties are 6 ins. X 8 ins. X 8 ft.spaced twenty inches at centers on joints, and thirty incheselsewhere. Cypress lumber is used throughout for sub-surface work, and owing to the moisture in the ground it 117 lbs. for guard rail. Twelve bolt suspended joints,thirty-two inches long are used and all bonding is triple-lacing secured with channel pins. Abutting ends of railsare placed in contact, and joints are placed opposite. Tie
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is practically indestructible. On other streets, wherecobble, Belgian block and plank paving are encountered,the longitudinal stringer is omitted, and the trench madetwenty inches deep. As practically all of the road is builtupon paved streets, nine inch girder rail is used through-out, weighing ninety pounds per yard for straight rail, and rods are spaced every six feet. Culverts or gutters forsurface drainage are encountered at many cross streets, andin order not to interfere with the flow, the nine inch girderrail is cut away so as to leave only five inches vertical depth,which is reinforced with angle iron riveted to the rails. All track construction is to the new grades as estab- 2l8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XII. No. 4. lished by the city engineer, L. W. Brown, for the drainagesystem about to be adopted by the city, and consequentlythe paving, curbs and culverts on the streets along theroute had to be relaid by the company, entailing a consid-erable expense, but insuring perm

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:232
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