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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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SWING BRIDGE—HAARLEM When the work was at its height on the entire line, there werein use 2360 laborers, two steam locomotives, one electric loco-motive, thirty-one steam pile drivers, three steam spouters, onesteam crane, sixty hand pile drivers, one steam bucket riggerand 165 flatboats and scows. TRACK CONSTRUCTION The permanent way along the Government High Road, andalso along the private right of way, is practically a steam rail-way construction. The rails are what is known as the Vignole(or T) section, weighing 70 lbs. per yard. The section is thestandard of the American Society of Civil Engineers for thatweight. The rails rest directly on ties spaced 76 cm center tocenter, except at the joints, where they are 50 cm. The joints are

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