. Electric railway review . TERMS 8c GAUGINC, POINTS FORWHEELS Standardization—Master Car Builders Terms and GaugingPoints for Wheels and Standardization—Wheel Tread and Flange of Central ElectricRailway Association. should be taken up by the main association, as rei)reseutingthe entire country, and all of them given consideration. Ifa standard were adopted it simply would be a guide to thosepeople who had other conditions. When the time came forthem to scrap obsolete equipment or renew their specialwork, they could make renewals with this final jioint inview. In Milwaukee t
. Electric railway review . TERMS 8c GAUGINC, POINTS FORWHEELS Standardization—Master Car Builders Terms and GaugingPoints for Wheels and Standardization—Wheel Tread and Flange of Central ElectricRailway Association. should be taken up by the main association, as rei)reseutingthe entire country, and all of them given consideration. Ifa standard were adopted it simply would be a guide to thosepeople who had other conditions. When the time came forthem to scrap obsolete equipment or renew their specialwork, they could make renewals with this final jioint inview. In Milwaukee they had been for several years pastplacing in city construction a rail with a 3-inch head, withthe view of being able to accommodate ultimately this widertread which the Central Electric association had recom-mended. They were doing that at very considerable expenseat the present time, operating considerably narrower treads,some of them very much narrower. The 3-inch rail waswider than the wheels and it wore in a peculiar manner;but in rebuilding track they put in new rail. The time wouldarrive very shortly when they would have a sufficient amounto
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