. Electric railway journal . AT , THE ASPHALT SOLID INTO THE OPENING. CENTEK AND RIGHT. A WORK CAR, EOUIIPED W^ITHSIDE OUTRIGGING TO DRAG PLOAV, FACILITATES EXCAVATION FOR NEW TRACK the patches from traffic, which was permitted to passover them as soon as laid, with no apparent damage. It may be that winter traffic and excessive cold maycause some failui-es in this repair work, but we aresatisfied that we have a cheap and rapid method ofrepairing concrete pavement, and if some defects doappear in these patches within the next few months itwill be a small matter to touch them up o
. Electric railway journal . AT , THE ASPHALT SOLID INTO THE OPENING. CENTEK AND RIGHT. A WORK CAR, EOUIIPED W^ITHSIDE OUTRIGGING TO DRAG PLOAV, FACILITATES EXCAVATION FOR NEW TRACK the patches from traffic, which was permitted to passover them as soon as laid, with no apparent damage. It may be that winter traffic and excessive cold maycause some failui-es in this repair work, but we aresatisfied that we have a cheap and rapid method ofrepairing concrete pavement, and if some defects doappear in these patches within the next few months itwill be a small matter to touch them up or makerenewals. Possibly this method of making repairs is not newto other roads, but we have never read of it. The creditfor our job is due J. K. Gibson, our superintendent,who watched some repairs being made by the cityon asphalt pavements and conceived the idea that thesame method would work out in repairing holes in con-crete. While we were at first skeptical, we are nowvery enthusiastic over the results obtained, and our
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