. The street railway review . eling on the slippery pc^s. Where the woodenblock is of about uniform density, as cedar, oak, or pine, it docsfor street car horses, it soon becomes worn and docs not furnish asleliable and durable footing as the much-abused cobblestone. A few forms of rails that were used arc shown in Fig. 3. A showsthe crescent rail, which was laid on Flm St. It weighed about 18lb. per yard, was .spiked, or rather mailed to 3 x 6-in. stringers, hadno inside tram, and was rather just criticised. B shows the Route9 rail, which was l^id on Vine .t weighed about 30 lb. per yard
. The street railway review . eling on the slippery pc^s. Where the woodenblock is of about uniform density, as cedar, oak, or pine, it docsfor street car horses, it soon becomes worn and docs not furnish asleliable and durable footing as the much-abused cobblestone. A few forms of rails that were used arc shown in Fig. 3. A showsthe crescent rail, which was laid on Flm St. It weighed about 18lb. per yard, was .spiked, or rather mailed to 3 x 6-in. stringers, hadno inside tram, and was rather just criticised. B shows the Route9 rail, which was l^id on Vine .t weighed about 30 lb. per yard,the rail head being rolleil thin to fit over an oak strip, nailed to thelop of the stringer. It had the rc>lrlnKcr. ^ v J -; k. 4«0« 7 V ^ 1. Timber Joi^.lFIG. TRACK PRIOR TO LSTl. but a rather indifferent car track. There was but little rail head,and what there was rested upon the extreme outside of a broad tim-ber, and was so soon pressed out of gage that the cars traveledupon the wheel flanges. D was used upon the same route, on theupper end of Main St. It was laid on 4 x 6-in. timbers, set on was much criticism because of the narrow inside tram, butthe track, being held to gage by tie rods, was a fairly good one forstreet cars. E is the center bearing or saddlebags rail, laid on the easternpart of Route 5. and on Route 7. It was the best of the strap rails,because it had sufficient weight to make it tolerably rigid, and, as itbrought the weight upon the center of the timber, it avoided thetendency to tilt the stick over, and thus widen the gage, as did all ofthe forms having the inside tram. The lack of the tram broughtupon it much censure from teamsters, but it was retained until theadvent of the e
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