. Electric railway journal . o$15 per foot of single track,which is about double the costof plain, tangent track. Slot-rail underground conduit con-struction cost much more thanany other type, as indicated inthe article by H. P. Huntingdescribing an installation ofthis type in Washington, , which appeared in theElectric Railway Journal for June 15, 1918. The installation referred to wasstated to have cost $56, net. The detailed costfigures indicated a unit cost of $ per foot of singletrack for the special work in place and about $14 perfoot of single track for adjacent tangent sl
. Electric railway journal . o$15 per foot of single track,which is about double the costof plain, tangent track. Slot-rail underground conduit con-struction cost much more thanany other type, as indicated inthe article by H. P. Huntingdescribing an installation ofthis type in Washington, , which appeared in theElectric Railway Journal for June 15, 1918. The installation referred to wasstated to have cost $56, net. The detailed costfigures indicated a unit cost of $ per foot of singletrack for the special work in place and about $14 perfoot of single track for adjacent tangent slot-rail track. These references to cost are made for the purposeof emphasizing the fact that special-work maintenanceis a very important feature in the work of the waydepartment. It hardly seems necessary to say that suchhigh costs should be the only warrant needed for theexpenditure of money in making frequent inspectionand timely repairs. It may also be noted that highrenewal costs often create a tendency or desire to keep. What would we have done withoutof special work? Assistant Engineer, Department of Way and Structure,Brooklyn Rapid Transit System a layout in service as long as possible and often beyondthe time when renewal is properly due. In these times,particularly, it is difficult to secure the combination ofmaterial, labor and funds which is essential to goodmaintenance, and very careful planning is needed tomake the best use of whatever parts of this combina-tion may be available. There are a number of problems and features ofspecial-work maintenance which are more or less com-mon to an electric railway, andan attempt will be made topresent some of them in thisarticle. While the methodsand practices described arethought to be those prevailinggenerally, there are severalfactors which influence theirapplication to individual sys-tems. Among them are thefollowing: (1) Size of theroad in terms of mileage. (2)Number of special-work layouts. (3) General character-istics o
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