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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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al is put into the roadbed quite dry. After itis in place the trench is flushed with water which flows downthrough the bed, completing the wetting process. The mate-rials are then allowed to set. This procedure avoids thenecessity for making the men work in the wet concrete mix- May 12, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 759 ture. The present management has lately rebuilt six miles of The present operating company owns approximately 180 track with concrete foundations in this way. miles of track. Of this mileage 10 miles or 12 miles are built The foregoing describes the latest standards that have been with loo-lb. T-rail, laid on 6 ins. of broken stone, which in adopted by the New Orleans Railways, Light & Power Com-pany, but inasmuch as many of the lines were built by severalindependent companies, all of which have been consolidatedat different times into the present company, some of the olderlines present considerable variety in track work. turn is laid upon a lyi-m. plank flooring.
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Cross Section through C-D iJETAILS OF T-RAIL CONSTRUCTION, WITH LAYER OFPLANKING UNDER TRACK, NEW ORLEANS Cross Section through C-D SirccI /ts.Jijjirnal DETAILS OF GIRDER CONSTRUCTION IN ASPHALT STREETS,WITH LAYER OF PLANKING UNDER TRACK, NEW ORLEANS /6o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 19. There are about 22 miles of the system, laid originally with60-lb. T-rail on earth ballast, and which is now being re-ballasted with 9 ins. of clam shells under the ties and up to thetop of the ties. This track for the most part is located eitheron private right of way or in neutral ground. The neutralground is perhaps peculiar to New Orleans, and comprises araised section running through the center of some of the wid-est streets and given over exclusively to electric railway oper-ation. Another predominating type of track construction, amount-ing to 9 miles or 10 miles, is built with 8o-lb. T-rail, either on,.slag or shell ballast. Where slag was put in it was laid to adepth of 6 ins. on i

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