. The Street railway journal . 547 sq. yds. of 8-in. macadam, 16,000sq. yds. of 6-in. macadam, and 6676 sq. yds. of Telford has also laid 10,000 sq. yds. under its own tracks of brokenstone ballast to a depth of 4 ins. JOINTS AND BONDb In making joints, both angle-plates and cast-welding havebeen used. Market Street, which is one of the principal lines,was originally cast-welded by William Wharton, Jr., & Com-pany. Later the railway company purchased its own cast-welding outfit,.and has cast about 621 joints. The results havebeen very satisfactory, as only about 1 per cent of the joi
. The Street railway journal . 547 sq. yds. of 8-in. macadam, 16,000sq. yds. of 6-in. macadam, and 6676 sq. yds. of Telford has also laid 10,000 sq. yds. under its own tracks of brokenstone ballast to a depth of 4 ins. JOINTS AND BONDb In making joints, both angle-plates and cast-welding havebeen used. Market Street, which is one of the principal lines,was originally cast-welded by William Wharton, Jr., & Com-pany. Later the railway company purchased its own cast-welding outfit,.and has cast about 621 joints. The results havebeen very satisfactory, as only about 1 per cent of the jointshave broken. Outside of the cast-welded joints the company isalso using a considerable number of Churchill and Atlas joints. The subject of bonding has been very carefully gone into, asthe general manager of the road, Mr. Harrington, is an expert011 this subject. A number of bonds have been used, severalof Mr. Harringtons own design, and as a result the companyhas practically settled on a bond which is known as the Cam-. VIEW AT END OF MOORESTOWN LINE. SHOWING SIGN ON SFAN WIRE INDICATING SECTION INSULATOR 4— Haddonfield 17 5— Haddon Heights 8 6— Kaighns Avenue 7— North Cranmer Hill 8— Merchantville and Moorestown Total 100 den & Suburban Bond No. 2. Each terminal of this bond con-sists of a cast-copper plate, 4 ins. x 6 ins., with two grooves init, each of which is of proper diameter to take in a 0000 top of the wires is placed a cast-iron plate with correspond-ing grooves, and both of these plates are drawn up tight to theweb of the rail with two i-in. bolts. The bond wires, of course, December 5, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 967 span the angle-plate. In applying the bond the web of the railis first ground down until it is bright and the surface is thentreated with Edison-Brown alloy. The contact surfaces of thecopper plates and of the wires are also amalgamated with thesame material. A similar construction of bond is used onT-rails except
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