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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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d ship-ping facilities for these lengths,fiinding that customers will nolonger order 30-ft. rail. By thismeans, the number of joints,always the weak point in a trackconstruction, have been cut intwo for any given length of track,and no greater effects of contrac-tion and expansion, certainly inrail imbedded in paving. Joints are placed sometimesopposite, sometimes broken,and there is not yet any wellsettled practice on this point, al-though the tendency is toward the opposite form. The natural advantage of brokenjoints is held to be neutralized by a peculiar and highlydisagreeable rolling motion of the car when the joints areseriously down, while with opposite joints the motion ofthe car is far less unpleasant, although perhaps slightlymore noisy when joints are very poor. The process of cast welding has come into very largeuse during the past four years and with generally satis-factory results. When the joints are well made, the per-centage of breakage is comparatively small, and the
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SKETCH i OF CHICAGO Showing the distribution POPULATION NOTE: Each dot represents 200 opinion among street railway managers seems well settledthat an exceedingly smooth and perfect riding track can beobtained and maintained by this means. Experiments inelectric welding have been carried on for two or threeyears with varying success, the latest work, such as that inliuffalo, appearing to be quite promising, though the cost 6i6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XV. No. 10. is still rather high. There are a number of excellentspecial patented joints, some of which are strong anddurable and can hardly fail to keep rail ends in positionor to bring up old track to surface. The ordinary fish-plates, from 30 ins. to 36 ins. in length, are also used inmany cases and give much better results than were ob-tained from the shorter fish-plates formerly common. A number of large rolling mill and other manufacturingcompanies have gone extensively into the business of mak-ing special work, switches, curve

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