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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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tationaryfoot-rests. In addition to six stationary seats, the smokingcompartment contains a sofa placed against one of the parti-tions. The car is heated with hot water, the heater being lo-cated in the baggage compartment near the partition betweenthis compartment and the smoking room. To prevent baggagefrom falling over against the motorman and the control appa-ratus, the front of the forward compartment is provided witha heavy pipe guard. The trucks employed are the St. LouisCar Companys M. C. B. type No. 61, these being machine fin-ished throughout. Rolled-steel wheels are employed, and theSt. Louis Car Companys spiral journal bearings are used. ♦-*♦ WOOD BLOCKS FOR TRACK PAVING The problem of paving between street car tracks has been atroublesome one for a number of years, especially in cities likeNew York, where this work is done at the expense of the rail-way company instead of the municipal authorities. The prob-lem is especially vexing where a smooth pavement is required.
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MAIN STREET, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.WOOD BLOCKS PAVED WITH Asphalt, which is the commonest of the smooth pavements, isnot suited to track work, because the oil drippings from carsdissolve the bitumen and ruin the pavement. Asphalt is alsoincapable of withstanding the vibration of tracks and ties. Probably the simplest solution of the problem in found inusing wood blocks such as those made by the U. S. Wood Pre-serving Company, of New York. This pavement is of marvel-ous endurance. It is easily laid without skilled labor or specialappliances, and can be readily removed for repairs to track and electric connections. The simplicity of splitting the blockswith a hatchet, when required, makes it an easy matter to fitthe pavement closely in the odd shaped spaces between cross-ings and switches. +++ THE TOLEDO & CHICAGO SINGLE-PHASE INTER-URBAN RAILWAY A prominent addition to the interurban field of the MiddleWest is the Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company,which traverses a well p

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