. The street railway review . amount of strength. Where the joint was too rigidly sup-ported below, the webs would crush, and if a very solid jointwere made to prevent this, the rail would often snap off justbeyond the joint; so it was finally decided to make a com-plete change and substitute the 95-lb. full groved rail, whichwas being used upon all new electric roads in remove the old rails and lay the new one without inter-fering with the regular operation of either the cable orelectric cars was a point which required careful study beforedeciding upon a new system. The original
. The street railway review . amount of strength. Where the joint was too rigidly sup-ported below, the webs would crush, and if a very solid jointwere made to prevent this, the rail would often snap off justbeyond the joint; so it was finally decided to make a com-plete change and substitute the 95-lb. full groved rail, whichwas being used upon all new electric roads in remove the old rails and lay the new one without inter-fering with the regular operation of either the cable orelectric cars was a point which required careful study beforedeciding upon a new system. The original design of thecable construction was such that a plan finally decided uponworked without a hitch and for the benefit of those inter-ested, the following description may prove instructive, inevent that they may be driven into undertaking a similarreconstruction. Fig. I shows the Walnut Hills and Vine street cable roadconstruction, when in perfect order, with the old 52-lb. railssupported upon, wrought iron yoke arms secured to
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