. Electric railway journal . 4-in. steel, placed midway be-tween each yoke, requiring one for each 5 ft. of beam. The concrete was hand mixed and was in the proportions of1 part cement, parts of sand and 5 parts of gravel by board forms were required to hold the concrete in place,as the trench had to be excavated to an extra width to facilitate. Section between Yokes. Section at Yoke. Electric Ry. Joumd Conduit Reinforcement in Washington—Fig. 1—Original Conduit Construction, Columbia Railway Railway when the single-phase system was used were 62 )4 in. long and weighed 58 tons
. Electric railway journal . 4-in. steel, placed midway be-tween each yoke, requiring one for each 5 ft. of beam. The concrete was hand mixed and was in the proportions of1 part cement, parts of sand and 5 parts of gravel by board forms were required to hold the concrete in place,as the trench had to be excavated to an extra width to facilitate. Section between Yokes. Section at Yoke. Electric Ry. Joumd Conduit Reinforcement in Washington—Fig. 1—Original Conduit Construction, Columbia Railway Railway when the single-phase system was used were 62 )4 in. long and weighed 58 tons without passengers, and therewere objections to their operation through the Washingtonstreets. With direct current, smaller cars have been adoptedfor service in the streets of Washington and the car finallyselected is 50 ft. over all and weighs without passengers about40 tons. A description of these cars was given in the issueof the Electric Railway Journal for May 29, 1909. Thesecars now run in Washington to the Treasury at FifteenthStreet and New York Avenue, N. W., using the tracks of theColumbia Line of the Washington Railway & Electric Company. The Columbia Railway was built in 1895-96 as a cable road,operating cars weighing 12,300 lb. not including 1898 this line was changed to the underground conduit elec-tric system, a
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