. The Street railway journal . Plan FIG. 4.—METHOD 1 La& ^r,% Oak Wedges fc-TtE Con cr eteSection A-B OF RELAYING TRACKS WITH CONCRETE BASE WITHOUTINTERRUPTING CAR SERVICE do the work properly without interrupting the car service. To allow the concrete in the track to properly set and to be-come strong enough to stand the pounding of the heavy elec-tric cars without injury, the cars should be taken off for a weekor ten days. On a line of great traffic it is impossible to carry. street surfaces generally are in a slippery condition, than theycan on most smooth TRACKS WI
. The Street railway journal . Plan FIG. 4.—METHOD 1 La& ^r,% Oak Wedges fc-TtE Con cr eteSection A-B OF RELAYING TRACKS WITH CONCRETE BASE WITHOUTINTERRUPTING CAR SERVICE do the work properly without interrupting the car service. To allow the concrete in the track to properly set and to be-come strong enough to stand the pounding of the heavy elec-tric cars without injury, the cars should be taken off for a weekor ten days. On a line of great traffic it is impossible to carry. street surfaces generally are in a slippery condition, than theycan on most smooth TRACKS WITHOUT INTERRUPTING CAR SERVICEOne of the greatest difficulties that presents itself at thejjresent time in connection with the relaying of street railway the traffic on a single track, and in narrow streets it would beimpracticable to lay a temporary track outside of the permanentlocation, so the result is, all work on the tracks has to be doneduring the time at night when most of the traffic is suspended,which is for about five hours. The problem before the track 222 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 5. engineer is therefore to put in durable construction and yetnot to injure the fresh concrete by allowing the cars to operateover the track the next morning. The writer has given this matter considerable study, andhas devised a method which has been tried in an experimentalway, and which promises a solution of the difficulty. The method is as follows: A short length of tr
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