. Electric railway journal . CLOSE VIEW OF BALLAST IN STORAGE SPACE 258 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 6 track was floored with sheet iron covered with someold scrap plates such as are sometimes fitted to cross-ings. The grade of the incline was made about 5 percent, and the work cars used to haul the ballast carshad no trouble in setting the latter upon the trestle. As the dump doors on the cars are let down, theballast runs out and assumes a position where it caneasily be handled by the work-car crews. The empty. ELEVATION OF UNLOADING TRESTLE ARRANGEMENT cars are switched out by g
. Electric railway journal . CLOSE VIEW OF BALLAST IN STORAGE SPACE 258 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 6 track was floored with sheet iron covered with someold scrap plates such as are sometimes fitted to cross-ings. The grade of the incline was made about 5 percent, and the work cars used to haul the ballast carshad no trouble in setting the latter upon the trestle. As the dump doors on the cars are let down, theballast runs out and assumes a position where it caneasily be handled by the work-car crews. The empty. ELEVATION OF UNLOADING TRESTLE ARRANGEMENT cars are switched out by gravity. The space for ballastholds about eight carloads of 25 yd. each, or approxi-mately 200 yd. When six or eight cars a day or evenmore were being set into the yard, this arrangementmade possible their immediate disposal, while by theordinary method of unloading it would have been neces-sary to hold some of these cars until demurrage wasdue. This arrangement also made it possible to loadand deliver the ballast to the work more quickly. The Ideal Trolley Wire The Author Reviews the Qualities of Different Ma-terials and Outlines the Proper Service for Each BY G. H. MCKELWAY Engineer of Distribution Brooklyn Rapid Transit System It might just as well be said at the beginning thatthe ideal trolley wire is like the old countrymansgi-raf-fee. There aint no such animal. The idealwire should be low in first cost, should never wear outor break, should have a salvage value when taken outof service equal to that of new wire,
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