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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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k was constructedof 60-lb. 4;j-in. T rails, with six-bolt splice bars, supportedon ties similar to those used for girder track. The ballastconsisted of 6 ins. of clean broken stone, 2.\ ins. ring, un-der the ties and filled level with the tops of the ties, carried turning in and out, ami the construction is much cheaperthan paved girder track. This style of construction hasbeen used to a considerable extent in the vicinity of Balti-more, and has been entirely satisfactory to the public andto the railway companies. On private rights of way the tracks were laid 13 ft. cen-ter to center, and center pole bracket overhead construc-tion was used. The accompanying views give a goodidea of the different characters of roadbed. All rails were supplied by the Pennsylvania SteelWorks. The girder rail was section No. 200; the 6-in. Trail, section No. 206 (Shanghai), and the 41/4-in. T rail,section No. 7. On highways and other places where the room was not 178 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No.
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MAP SHOWING ELECTRIC RAILWAY LINES IN NORTH AND WEST SUBURBS OF BALTIMORE April, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 179 available, the tracks were set 10 ft. center to center, andwood pole cross suspension was used. The poles for allthe work were long leaf, merchantable quality, Georgiapine, sawed octagonal, 10 ins. in diameter at the top and12 ins. at the butt. These were set 6 ft. in the ground incement concrete, which was brought up above the groundand coned up to the pole, and finished with cement mortar, A 3 in. or 4 in. bond was used at each joint in order not tointerfere with the bolts. Atkinson Horse Shoe bondsand Washburn & Moen Crown bonds were employedin about equal proportions. The T rail track was bondedwith two No. 000 Crown bonds 32 ins. long, outside ofthe splice bars. The use of copper bonds on the exposedT rail was avoided, as the roads in the neighborhood of ROLLED MACADAM t. ; 1

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