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Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (find matches)
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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GROUND PLAN OF RICHMOND TERMINAL DEPOT TRACKS The Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway is a singletrack road with turnouts to provide for cars traveling inopposite directions. It is 14.8 miles in length and is laidfor the whole distance with A. S. C. E. standard 80-lb. 374 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXL No. id. rails. The ties are of white oak and measure 7 in. x 8 in.,with a length of 83/2 ft. The rails are spiked to the ties inthe customary manner, and on curves of 7 deg. and overare braced at every tie. The gage is standard. The rail bonds are 4.8 in. between centers of terminals
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FTC. 20.—EXTERIOR VIEW OF ASHLAND TERMINAL DEPOT and have a capacity equal to a No. 0000 trolley. The ter-minals are % in. in diameter. The cross bonds have alength of 66 in. and have the same type of terminals andare of the same capacity as the rail bonds. phones that are most frequently used are in booths andthese are provided with insulated stools. REINFORCED CONCRETE VIADUCT Although the reinforced concrete viaduct which has beenconstructed to carry the track at a highlevel through the suburbs of Richmondto the terminal depot has been pre-viously described, it will not be out ofplace here to give some of the mostessential details. This structure shows the mostdrastic departure from customary rail-way practice in the construction oftrestle bridges, and it is of special in-terest to learn that the reinforced con-crete construction was only adoptedafter the relative merits of a steel via-duct and of a wooden trestle, with steelgirders sjianning the longer gaps, hadbeen carefully co

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo311908newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:385
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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