. The Street railway journal . ssuetickets to the rink, and it is understood theenterprise was very materially encouragedby stockholders in the company. There maybe in this a suggestion for other roads,which may be able to engineer similarenterprises to then- profit. Other cases 36 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [DECEkBEB, 1884. Railroad Joints. [Read before Wisconsin Society of Engi-neers, Sept. 2, 1884.] The editor of the American Journal ofRailway Appliances wrote: A recent callercomplained that he could not get any satis-faction out of the ordinary tram-rail joints,that they were unstable and
. The Street railway journal . ssuetickets to the rink, and it is understood theenterprise was very materially encouragedby stockholders in the company. There maybe in this a suggestion for other roads,which may be able to engineer similarenterprises to then- profit. Other cases 36 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [DECEkBEB, 1884. Railroad Joints. [Read before Wisconsin Society of Engi-neers, Sept. 2, 1884.] The editor of the American Journal ofRailway Appliances wrote: A recent callercomplained that he could not get any satis-faction out of the ordinary tram-rail joints,that they were unstable and caused bat-tering of the rail ends and uneven ridingof the cars. W e were not aware that on many of ourtramw ay lines there was such a thing as joints in the rails. There are periodicalbreaks or spaces or interruptions or some-thing like that, but on careful examinationand recollection we do not find any-thing which would justify us in swearingthat there were joints. The alleged jointsremind us of a story concerning a certain. member of the theatrical profession, whowas what is technically called by his fel-lows a barn-stormer of the wild and terri-ble variety. This individual was a witnessin a legal case. Upon being sworn andasked his name he gave it as christened; speaks of the practice then in vogue, ofputting plates under the strap-rail specifications for track laying on theUtica & Syracuse R. R., contained the fol-lowing: As each joint of the iron plate(rail) end plates shall be neatly fitted intothe oak ribbons, so as to bring their uppersurfaces in the same horizontal place, theend plates shall be six inches long, 2i inchesbroad (same width as rail) and J^inch was prior to 1843. When street railways for passengerservice were inaugurated by the construc-tion of the New York & Harlem, in the cityof New York, 1832, operated by horsepower and laid in the street, it at once each other, and the latter the stringer andrails. The common practice in this co
Size: 1104px × 2265px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
