. Electric railway journal . Waterbury Extensions—View Along the Thomaston Line engineering department of the New York, New Haven &Hartford Railroad, E. H. Mclienry, vice-president; EdwardGagel, chief engineer; C. R. Harte, in charge of trolley con-struction. Wm. G. Smith, , of Waterbury, located the. Waterbury Extensions—Bridge Over the Naugatuck River lines and had immediate charge of the work in the contractors for the entire construction were F. T. Ley& Company, Springfield, Mass. REDUCTION OF CORRUGATION BY WELDING Electric railway companies in Europe seem to have beenmore t
. Electric railway journal . Waterbury Extensions—View Along the Thomaston Line engineering department of the New York, New Haven &Hartford Railroad, E. H. Mclienry, vice-president; EdwardGagel, chief engineer; C. R. Harte, in charge of trolley con-struction. Wm. G. Smith, , of Waterbury, located the. Waterbury Extensions—Bridge Over the Naugatuck River lines and had immediate charge of the work in the contractors for the entire construction were F. T. Ley& Company, Springfield, Mass. REDUCTION OF CORRUGATION BY WELDING Electric railway companies in Europe seem to have beenmore troubled by corrugation of rails than those in thiscountry and have given a great deal of attention to thesubject. In a paper recently read by A. Busse, of Berlin,on rail corrugation, it is stated that the electric railwaycompanies in Bremen, Berlin and Hamburg have recentlybeen trying the experiment of welding strips of soft ironto the rail surface to overcome the trouble! The weldingis accomplished by means of an electric arc. It is saidthat the results so far have proved satisfactory and thatnoisy riding due to the corrugations has disappeared, butthe plan has been followed too short a time to determinewhether the relief will be permanent. The Cardiff Corporation Tramways is considering a
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