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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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of wood creosote, maybe applied to the timber with a brush,or by dipping, as is most convenient,and it enters the pores of the wood,whether the latter is hard or soft, veryrapidly, owing to its high natural pen-etrative powers. The preservative was used on theline poles of the well known Burling-ton & Mt. Holly Klectric Railway ofwhich so much was heard last year,the poles being treated by applyingthe liquid with a brush. The cross tieswere also treated and Woodiline bidsfair to become very useful in suchwork. Thirteen years of service of theseverest character made on one of thelargest .steam roads in the country jus-tify the claims made by the makers. liberal expenditure on first construction for rails, Vjallast and track-la^-ing may defer the day of complete failure, yet, finally, despitethe trackmens efforts, it surely comes. The old angle plates aresometimes taken off and replaced with new bars of about the same,but heavier pattern. These in turn go down after a few weeks and
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^ FIG. 4.—SUBURBAN STEAM RAILROAD TRACK IN BOSTON H. E. Harrington, general managerof the Camden .S: .Suburban Railway Company, Camden, N. J., writes that his company desires priceson the following niaterial delivered F. O. B. at Camden: forty-fivepound to sixty-five pound T rail for 3000 running feet of track, andfishplates, bolts, etc., to be used with the same. LAID WITH WEBER JOINTS. The ofiicials of the Long Island Railroad Company, Lynbrook,L. I., have been looking over the Long Beach branch with the ideaof substituting electricity for steam as the motive power. never help permanently, if temporarily, the depressed rail ends.Some of the practical results of the Weber joint in this connec-tion are of decided interest and of far reaching importance andshould command the serious attention of every street railway man-ager.^ This joint has bpen placed on many miles of girder and T railand has unifornih- corrected the deflected ends—a process requiringfrom three to six weeks depen

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