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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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STOCK YARDS OF THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY tie weighs 167 lbs., and costs $2.50 each. Including labor forinstalling, it costs $6,120 per mile, and it is claimed the life isthirty years, at the end of which time they should be worth$900 per mile for scrap. The manufacturer claims that wood • i 1 1 m ;- -■ ... .fr^.v<^ -4! m steam road in one corner and with its own line in the oppositecorner. The accompanying illustrations show the layout in avery complete manner. There is ample space for storing largequantities of material of all kinds. There is a large revolvingcrane covering a considerable portion of the yard, and this isprovided with hooks for handling rails and other heavy ma-terial, and it also may be fitted with a clamshell bucket forhandling broken stone and other similar material. This isoperated by motor and windlass in the small house shown. At
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HOLDING THE RETAINING WALL NEW TRACK CONSTRUCTION WITH STEEL TIES tie renewals for a period of thirty years would cost at least$13,000 per mile. The illustration of a section of this trackherewith also shows clearly the Lorain Steel Companysmethod of welding joints by the bars. The Cleveland Electric Railway has a very complete yardfor handling and storing material. Formerly this work wasscattered all over town. Some time ago the company boughta number of acres of property adjoining its Windermere car one end of the yard is a large motor-operated stone crusher,illustrated. All track is now being laid with crushed stone,and the company buys and breaks up worn out paving stonefor this purpose. There is a large warehouse in the yard, withplatform surrounding it, and equipped with a crane for unload-ing heavy material. A track scale adjoins the building. Thecompany makes a practice of keeping large stocks of materialon hand all the tim-i, the average receipts of late being 400 cars Octobe

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