. The Street railway journal . GRAVEL 4- DEEP- Ct PRtSS HLAfjKIN; 1 TI-yCK FIG 11—NEW ORLEANS ROADBED. -9-6Ji- -f4-8M- 1^ FIG, 12.—CHICAGO ROADBED. 1895 BQQ \UBB \ 1 q3 ED cii till FIG. 13.—CHICAGO ROADBED. 1 ill 1 Brich Is. ROADBED. which makes it certain thatit will never be displacedby any other system offer-ing less conveniences or apoorer service to the public ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. The old horse railwaytrack construction, with itsfiat, sidebearing rails spikeddown to longitudinal string-ers, has gone by forever. Inits place have come formsof construction which al-most equal in solidity th
. The Street railway journal . GRAVEL 4- DEEP- Ct PRtSS HLAfjKIN; 1 TI-yCK FIG 11—NEW ORLEANS ROADBED. -9-6Ji- -f4-8M- 1^ FIG, 12.—CHICAGO ROADBED. 1895 BQQ \UBB \ 1 q3 ED cii till FIG. 13.—CHICAGO ROADBED. 1 ill 1 Brich Is. ROADBED. which makes it certain thatit will never be displacedby any other system offer-ing less conveniences or apoorer service to the public ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. The old horse railwaytrack construction, with itsfiat, sidebearing rails spikeddown to longitudinal string-ers, has gone by forever. Inits place have come formsof construction which al-most equal in solidity thestandard roadway construc-tion of our best steam rail-roads. It is not to be ex-pected, however, that theworking life of any citytrack and roadbed will be asgreat in years as that ofsteam railroads, since thetraffic conditions havecome to be far more severethan those found on anysave, perhaps, the mostheavily traveled steamroads. It is a serious matterto run electric motor carsover a deep, narrow railevery thirty seconds andto sandwich vehicles in be-tween cars—far more seri-ous than to run passengeror freight trains over astout, thick rail every ten,fifteen or twenty , with the latestand best
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