. The Street railway journal . 10-TON ELECTRIC COAL CAR USED IN HUDDERSFIELD BRACKET-ARM CONSTRUCTION AT OSMASTON ROAD used not only to haul the coal for the tramway power house, but measured as single track, of about 11 miles, and a gage of 4 for several large mills in Huddersfield, a distance of about The track construction consists of a layer, \]/2 ins. thick, of4 miles from the coal sidings. One especial novel feature of the Portland cement concrete, composed of four parts of broken. SIDE-DOOR DISCHARGE OF HUDDERSFIELD COAL CAR THE STANDARD DERBY DOUBLE-DECK CAR car is that as the
. The Street railway journal . 10-TON ELECTRIC COAL CAR USED IN HUDDERSFIELD BRACKET-ARM CONSTRUCTION AT OSMASTON ROAD used not only to haul the coal for the tramway power house, but measured as single track, of about 11 miles, and a gage of 4 for several large mills in Huddersfield, a distance of about The track construction consists of a layer, \]/2 ins. thick, of4 miles from the coal sidings. One especial novel feature of the Portland cement concrete, composed of four parts of broken. SIDE-DOOR DISCHARGE OF HUDDERSFIELD COAL CAR THE STANDARD DERBY DOUBLE-DECK CAR car is that as the coal chutes of the steam railroad companywere located in rather an awkward position, and as they ter-minated only 7 ft. above the track, a special truck and car hadto be designed to fit this corner. The car has ?. capacity of 10 stone, two parts of sharp sand and one part Portland this was laid cement concrete 2 ins. thick, composed ofthree parts of J^-in. granite chips, one part clean sand and onepart Portland cement. This was hand floated up to an even November 5, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 835 surface, with a longitudinal chase 10 ins. wide and Ij^ for the reception of the flanges of the rails. When therails had been surfaced and the line fished and tied to exactgage, bonds and cross bonds inserted, the rails were coveredwith a coating of tar, and the chase containing the flanges of
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