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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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perating coil of the ground circuit-breaker and soundsthe alarm whistle to indicate to the men that the potentialhas been cut off from the house trolley wires. November 29, 1913.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1145 PAVING PROTECTOR USED WITH T-RAIL INMEMPHIS, TENN. A paving protector used in connection with T-rail con-struction in paved streets has been adopted by the MemphisStreet Railway Company, Memphis, Tenn. This device wasdesigned in Memphis and is manufactured by local foun-dries. Its form varies slightly with the rail sections with by using 70-lb. and 75-lb. A. S. C. E. rail in what were thenand what were expected to be for some time to come mac-adam streets. The expense that would have been incurredby relaying all this track with girder-groove or tram-railsections was too great even to be considered, and it becamenecessary to devise some means other than the use of specialpaving block to provide a flangeway and protect properlythe paving alongside of T-rails. After the company had
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\ r 1 < 2K—— —10*!- ± —MH- I0J4- i 2«-—* Elevation Joint Castin, Section Elevations and Section of Memphis Paving Protector .Elevation Rail Casting Standard Length s Electric Ittj-Journah which it is used. Its purpose is not only to protect the pav-ing alongside of T-rails but also to eliminate the use of thespecial paving blocks which usually form the flangeways.It is cast in sections 3 ft. in length, which weigh approxi-mately 7 lb. per linear foot. The material used is caststeel which costs between \y2 cents and 2^4 cents per pound,the difference in cost depending on the market as well as thequantity purchased. This paving protector has been used by the MemphisStreet Railway Company for more than five years. Thecircumstances connected with its original installation werethat the city government secured from the State Legislaturethe passage of a front-foot assessment law permitting thecity to pave any street by assessing two-thirds of the costagainst the abutting prope

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