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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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g to end. ♦♦♦ Method of Splicing: Cars in Philadelphia The Union Traction Company of Philadelphia is splicingat its car repair shops quite a number of its old 18-ft. cars,making a new body 25 ft. in length, which is mounted oneight-wheel trucks. In the operation of splicing, the carsare cut in two and the sills are united by a correspondingsection inserted with a ship splice, when the whole is re-inforced by a steel angle plate 6 ins. x 4 ins. and H in. inthickness. This is placed on the outside of the sill with the4-in. limb on the under side. The car is also reinforced bytruss rods. The sides and roof are then completed to cor-respond with the original structure of the car. ♦♦♦ An Important Appointment The Boston Elevated Railway Company has engagedJohn Lundie, the well-known expert in railroad transpor-tation, as its consulting engineer, for the construction ofthe new elevated railway in Boston, and Mr. Lundie willshortly begin his preliminary work in laying out and de-
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Sir*et Railway J<nirnal,.\\F. DETAILS OF TROLLEY termining the factors in the elevated railway composition aspresented by Bostons peculiar conditions. Mr. Lundiesvaluable work in analyzing the traffic conditions of the Il-linois Centrals Chicago suburban lines has given him ahigh place among railroad experts, and his exceptionallycareful study of the Brooklyn elevated railway problemsduring the past few months has brought him even widerexperience. Mr. Lundies unique methods of attackingrailroad transportation questions are the admiration ofthose who have been privileged to follow them, and hisgrasp of all the elements entering into any particular caseis remarkable. 82 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vol. XV., No. 2. The Cincinnati & Hamilton Electric Street Railway-In Southeastern Ohio there is now completed a systemof connecting interurban electric roads reaching from Cin-cinnati to Eaton via Hamilton and Dayton, a distance ofnearly 100 miles. The lines extending from Eaton toDayton,

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