. The Street railway journal . street FIG. 47.—NEW YORK RAIL manufacture presented many difficulties and the railmakers met with many failures in attempting to roll time, thought and money have been expended in ex-periments, with the result that to-day these rails are placedon the market at a price but slightly in advance of ordinaryT rails. So great seemed to bet-he difficulties in the wayat first that many devices were brought forth to accom-plish the purpose without making a solid rail. Themost ingenious of these was the so-called electric railwhich consisted of an ordi
. The Street railway journal . street FIG. 47.—NEW YORK RAIL manufacture presented many difficulties and the railmakers met with many failures in attempting to roll time, thought and money have been expended in ex-periments, with the result that to-day these rails are placedon the market at a price but slightly in advance of ordinaryT rails. So great seemed to bet-he difficulties in the wayat first that many devices were brought forth to accom-plish the purpose without making a solid rail. Themost ingenious of these was the so-called electric railwhich consisted of an ordinary bulb section and a ±shaped base rolled separately, the latter being cut intoshort sections of from four to eight or nine inchesand electrically welded to the head portion at intervalssuited to the tie spacing. By thus rolling the rail in twoseparate parts a very broad base could be produced, anda large economy effected in the omission of the entirelower half of the rail between the ties. This rail was. FIG. 48.—WASHINGTON RAIL, FIGS. 49-50.—10>^ IN. RAILS. in having an extended lip attached to the guard, the ideaof whichis that it will carry the street traffic which tracksalong the rails to such an extent as to greatly increasethe wear on the rail and pavement. But since the railnow in use (Fig. 37, shown in previous article, p. 49) has adifference in elevation between the head and guard, thusguiding the street traffic along the rail—a feature whichhas been eliminated in the new rail by bringing theguard up to the level of the head—it is difficult to seewhy a tram should be provided for a traffic which willnot be able to keep to the track. Fig. 48 shows the rail used on the new conduit elec-tric roads in Washington. There is a very serious objection to these seven inchrails on roads laid in granite block pavement on an ordi-nary sand base, in that the ties, having little or no sandover them, form a solid bed for the pavement, while thatportion between the tie
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