. The Street railway journal . rectly above the Septem ber, [898. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 503 posts. Here the transverse girders act as stiffeners onlyagainst lateral motion, and are arched. Plate girders arensed at one place, on the Charlestown bridge, and thewhole structure is designed to be sufficiently strong tosupport the third track in case that should be posts are 15 ins. square and consist of two connected by a made-up beam. At the stationsthe top of the rails w ill be 20 ft. above the street level andthe lowest point of the girders is 14 ft. above the str
. The Street railway journal . rectly above the Septem ber, [898. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 503 posts. Here the transverse girders act as stiffeners onlyagainst lateral motion, and are arched. Plate girders arensed at one place, on the Charlestown bridge, and thewhole structure is designed to be sufficiently strong tosupport the third track in case that should be posts are 15 ins. square and consist of two connected by a made-up beam. At the stationsthe top of the rails w ill be 20 ft. above the street level andthe lowest point of the girders is 14 ft. above the streetlevel. Ninety-pound T rails will be used, laid on 61-in. by lies with wooden guard rails. Electricity will be the motive power for the new elevatedrailway, and the current will be taken by a third rail laidoutside of the tracks. The cars will weigh approximately33,000 lbs. each, without motors, and will measure 47 ins. over buffers. They will be of substantially the same THE MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD COMMISSION. The Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State ofMassachusetts deserves a high place among Americanofficial commissions appointed to protect, in one way andanother, the peoples interests. Its members have beenwise without being arrogant, conservative without beingnarrow, and reasonable if not generous in their treatmentof capital invested in the railroads and street railways of theCommonwealth. For twenty-nine years this board hasbeen in existence. For twenty-nine years the records oftransportation in Massachusetts have been kept by it withgreat accuracy and consistency, so that they form a bodyof comparative figures concerning the growth of trans-portation interests in their varied phases which are equaledby those of 110 other State in the Union. The chairman of the commission, John E. Sanford, of f %
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