. Electric railway journal . ost of worktrain service very materially, the average costs beingas follows: Asphalt, per square yard of paving cents Sand, per yard-mile cent Granite block, per yard-mile cent Cement, per barrel-mile cent Paving brick, per thousand per mile cents The cost of handling rail, including loading and un-loading, is considerably more than for the other com-modities and amounts to about cents per of these figures include the cost of the return trip. Handling Material in Limited Store Yards As the track-material storeyards are limi
. Electric railway journal . ost of worktrain service very materially, the average costs beingas follows: Asphalt, per square yard of paving cents Sand, per yard-mile cent Granite block, per yard-mile cent Cement, per barrel-mile cent Paving brick, per thousand per mile cents The cost of handling rail, including loading and un-loading, is considerably more than for the other com-modities and amounts to about cents per of these figures include the cost of the return trip. Handling Material in Limited Store Yards As the track-material storeyards are limited incapacity, more than 75 per cent of the carload ship-ments to the track department are transferred directlyfrom the steam railroad cars to those of the street rail-way. This saves one handling of the material, butnecessitates much closer figuring upon the requirementsand working closer to a program than some railwaysfind to be practicable. By careful attention to theprogress of the work, however, this plan operates very. KANSAS CITY TRACK CONSTRUCTION—TEMPORARY TRACKS ON ABANDONED STREET 432 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 11
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