. The Street railway journal . ofa large rolling mill and steel works, andthese shops, managed by practical andtrained engineers, make nothing butstreet railway special work. The need ofsomething better than ordinary built-up work became evident, and bv anatural process it was soon France it is the engineer of the rail-way company who must take the initi-ative in designing the special work, withthe fact before him that if he gets upsomething very different from theordinary shop practice he will get no-body to undertake to make it except onsuch onerous terms as to make it inl- an
. The Street railway journal . ofa large rolling mill and steel works, andthese shops, managed by practical andtrained engineers, make nothing butstreet railway special work. The need ofsomething better than ordinary built-up work became evident, and bv anatural process it was soon France it is the engineer of the rail-way company who must take the initi-ative in designing the special work, withthe fact before him that if he gets upsomething very different from theordinary shop practice he will get no-body to undertake to make it except onsuch onerous terms as to make it inl- and there is nothing here novel about the bonds or methodsof placing them. Track with cast-welded joints is notbonded at the joint, but the rails and tracks are frequentlycross-bonded. Overhead pole lines are much neater looking in Francethan in America. This comes from the fact that all work is Track in Wood Pavement. 2-^040 B,sjj^l7a4iS. 1 < 2f5008—jj. V Street Street FIG. 9.—SPACING OF TIE RODS FIG. ii.—CROSS SECTIONS OF TRACK USED BY A PARIS TRAMWAY possible. Therefore there is no incentive to try to adoptgood methods in special work, and the best one can do is tobe content with built-up work. This is often made in thefield—the rails being cut, drilled and spliced together withusually a good heavy sole plate riveted to the frog. The switches are made of rails assembled together; thetongue is straight on both of its sides. Fig. 13 shows one treated from an aesthetic as well as from an utilitarian pointof view, while in America the former is usually so sub-ordinate to the latter that in actual results it is not wire suspended in any way whatever in a publicstreet cannot from the very nature of things be writer finds it difficult to say in just what the over-head wires differ in appearance from those put up in 930 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 41. America. The appliances are practically
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