. The street railway review . M.\P OF , TR(,V \ VUJV .\ KV. ;!■■ LINK I.\ ;Lll. nished all of the special track work in which hardened steel centersare used. Outside of the city limits the road is built of 70-lb. Carnegie rails of the standard A. S. C. E. section. Therails are laid on white oak ties 6x8 in. x8 ft. in dimensions, whichrest on 9 in. of gravel ballast. Six-bolt fish plates arc used on thegreater part of the line and a few Weber joints are also in rails are bonded partly with Edison-Brown plastic bonds, thesebeing used within the cities and
. The street railway review . M.\P OF , TR(,V \ VUJV .\ KV. ;!■■ LINK I.\ ;Lll. nished all of the special track work in which hardened steel centersare used. Outside of the city limits the road is built of 70-lb. Carnegie rails of the standard A. S. C. E. section. Therails are laid on white oak ties 6x8 in. x8 ft. in dimensions, whichrest on 9 in. of gravel ballast. Six-bolt fish plates arc used on thegreater part of the line and a few Weber joints are also in rails are bonded partly with Edison-Brown plastic bonds, thesebeing used within the cities and towns and the remainder of thetrack is bonded with type G all-wire bonds made by the OhioBrass Co. The overhead work is entirely of side-bracket construction out-side of the cities where some span work is to be found, but the. bolted to the poles and secured to the cross arms by lag use of wooden instead of iron braces was adopted with aview to having practically no metal on the pole which could pos-sibly occasion short circuits or reduce the insulation of the hightension system. A short cross arm is used lower down on lliepole which carries the telephone lines used for dispatching. Power House. The power house of the Springfield, Troy & Piqua Ry. is locatedjust outside of tile city limits of Springfield and is a handsome
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