. Electric railway journal . One-man or TwoThermit Insert Welds in macadam, inuse in 1883 inthis country. From the day that the first street railway waslaid, the member responsible for most of the railand paving wear was the RAIL grew heavier, and the weights of rails in-creased correspondingly, but still no successfulway of ELIMINATING THE JOINT was practised, until the arrival of the Thermit Thermo-Chemical process of mak-ing the rail physically and electrically continuous. The extraordinary success of this method and the still further refinements ofthe Thermit Process as exemplif
. Electric railway journal . One-man or TwoThermit Insert Welds in macadam, inuse in 1883 inthis country. From the day that the first street railway waslaid, the member responsible for most of the railand paving wear was the RAIL grew heavier, and the weights of rails in-creased correspondingly, but still no successfulway of ELIMINATING THE JOINT was practised, until the arrival of the Thermit Thermo-Chemical process of mak-ing the rail physically and electrically continuous. The extraordinary success of this method and the still further refinements ofthe Thermit Process as exemplified in the THERMIT INSERT WELD have abundantly proved, in installations for allclasses of service made under wide limits of tem-perature, that THERMIT INSERT WELDSprolong the life of track and paving and pro-mote smooth, easy riding. This sketchehows ,a per-fect joint be-t w e e n Bail and73-lb. ChannelRail. For Com-promise Welds,the ThermitProcess is September 22, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 105
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