. Electric railway journal . to any othersize of conductor. If this splicing of scrap could bedone by emergency crews which would otherwise beidle the cost per splice would be less and the minimumeconomical length of piece worth splicing would be interested will find this twenty-four-year-old SanFrancisco splicer fully described and illustrated in theElectric Railway Journal of Nov. 8, 1915, page 955. In 1904 the San Francisco order was Splice up500,000-circ. mil cable from pieces as short as 10 all shorter than 10 ft. In 1917 the 10 ft. waschanged to 5 ft. as a minimum. Oa
. Electric railway journal . to any othersize of conductor. If this splicing of scrap could bedone by emergency crews which would otherwise beidle the cost per splice would be less and the minimumeconomical length of piece worth splicing would be interested will find this twenty-four-year-old SanFrancisco splicer fully described and illustrated in theElectric Railway Journal of Nov. 8, 1915, page 955. In 1904 the San Francisco order was Splice up500,000-circ. mil cable from pieces as short as 10 all shorter than 10 ft. In 1917 the 10 ft. waschanged to 5 ft. as a minimum. Oak Shims Used in TrackRehabilitation That worn-out rails on a good foundation can bereplaced with second-hand rails with several years wearleft in them, thus avoiding tearing out the ties, is illus-trated by a job done on a section of track about a milein length orl the lines of the New York State Railways,Rochester, N. Y. As the ties were somewhat rotted under the rail butwere otherwise in good condition, the bad portion was. CROSS-SECTION SHOWING OAK SHIM adzed out and an oak block shim was inserted, as shownin the accompanying sketch. The blocks were made 12in. or 15 in. long by 6 in. wide and of different thick-nesses. They were bored so as not to be split by thetrack spikes. In doing the work it was necessary onlyto take out the pavement, the foundation being left inplace. The paving was readily replaced, but if the ties
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