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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 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 depending on the amount of the of thetravel and the weight of rolling stock, and this connection is one 640 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol.. XII. No. y. which is permanent and means an added life of several years wherethe rest of the rail is in fair condition. Fig. I shows a case prior to using the Weber joint. When therail en(ls are bent, of course their angle bars are bent. vStreet rail-way officials will recall spots of their own track of which thismight be an actual view. Fig. 2, shows the same rail after a short experience with theWeber joint. Here the rail has been ironed out and is up to atrue surface. The rolling load—in this case the constantly passing The General Elcetric Company at the Conven= tion.
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FIG. 5.—AN ILLUSTRATION OF RAILROAD TRACK LAID WITH POOR JOINTS troUej cars—have gradually rolled or ironed out the rail to con-form to the joint. As track experience and mechanical tests showthis joint to have far greater vertical and lateral strength than anyrail, it follows that under loads the rail must give way to the joint.This being a gradual process there is no shock to either rail or jointand the result is as before .stated, a permanent one. The value for this work of the strong mechanical combination ofchannel and angle bars, shoe angle and filler found in the Weberjoint is apparent, Extraordinary .stiffness is given and yet by theuse of the wood filler the whole is cushioned and a certainamount of elasticity- is obtained, which is necessary if failvire of therail or joint by breaking is to be successfully avoided. As before stated, the Weber joint has materially helped a con-siderable mileage of old street and steam railway track which hasbeen in anywhere from six to tw

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