. Electric railway journal . These yokes from time totime stick up in places where the pavement has worndown, and it is necessary to have them removed. In-stead of sawing them off the oxy-acetylene apparatus isused to cut off the ends. Where there are electric lines crossing the cablelines, the slot tends to close up on account of expansionin the heavy electric rails. Heretofore it has beennecessary first to take out the pavement in order to cutoff the rail at the arm of the crossing, and then toshove back the crossing in order to open up the of the above process we now cut a thin
. Electric railway journal . These yokes from time totime stick up in places where the pavement has worndown, and it is necessary to have them removed. In-stead of sawing them off the oxy-acetylene apparatus isused to cut off the ends. Where there are electric lines crossing the cablelines, the slot tends to close up on account of expansionin the heavy electric rails. Heretofore it has beennecessary first to take out the pavement in order to cutoff the rail at the arm of the crossing, and then toshove back the crossing in order to open up the of the above process we now cut a thin stripoff one side of the slot rail, as shown in an accompany-ing illustration. This has been done on a heavy man-ganese double crossing, making a cut of 46 ft. at acost of $19. If the slot had been widened in the usualmanner by taking up the crossing and forcing it backinto position, the cost would have been approximately$150 to accomplish the same result. The yokes men-tioned above and also the rails were cut off at about. WIDENING CABLE SLOT IN SAN FRANCISCO WITH OXY-ACETY-LENE FLAME July 15, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 109
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