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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 1C—STANDARD PAVED STREET TRACK CONSTRUCTION
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13 -MAKING THE BED FOR THE PAVING BLOCKS AND FIG. 15.-FINISHED SECTION OF TRACK AND CAST-WELDING LAYING NEW TRACK ON CONCRETE STRINGERS OF JOINTS ON EAST TRACK ONLY December 31, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 39 Fifth Street just after the street work was completed. Thecompany is required to pave between and within the tracks,and to a distance of 1 ft. on each outer side. These tracks arelaid on 10-ft. centers, but the standard construction on the otherlines is 9 ft. 6 ins., this width being required by the narrow-ness of the streets throughout the city. For emergency use on some of the streets, the company hasinstalled raised cross-overs of Mr. Fullers de-sign, which leave the main track rails un-broken and perfectly smooth. For guard railon curves, and also on some of the specialwork, old horse car rail has been used, beinginstalled vertically with the ball up and withcast-iron fillers between it and the main rail.This construction has served the purpose welland has been used throug

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