. The Street railway journal . ty closed cable cars with a twentyfoot body, very similar in design to those used on the Broadway Rail-way in New York. 6S8 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 10. Rail Joints and Bonds. By James M. Price. If there be a sore place in the great railroad system, coveringthe land with a network of tracks for the flying locomotive trains,which no physician has yet healed, probably it is found in the defectsof rail joints, everywhere seen in low joints, rails battered down attheir ends, while elsewhere fit for service, and in the perpetual knock-ing at the joints
. The Street railway journal . ty closed cable cars with a twentyfoot body, very similar in design to those used on the Broadway Rail-way in New York. 6S8 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 10. Rail Joints and Bonds. By James M. Price. If there be a sore place in the great railroad system, coveringthe land with a network of tracks for the flying locomotive trains,which no physician has yet healed, probably it is found in the defectsof rail joints, everywhere seen in low joints, rails battered down attheir ends, while elsewhere fit for service, and in the perpetual knock-ing at the joints, which makes all motion tremulous, while wearingaway the rolling stock. The rail itself is year by year improving inits section for strength and endurance, and the quality of the track, asregards the ballast and the laying, is steadily attaining a higher aver-age, yet the defects of the joints seem, like the poor, to be alwayswith us, and the annual breakage of splices adds alike to the expensesand the risks of the FIG. 1.—LITTLE GIANT JOINT. Is there no cure for this ? The defects of splice bars have beenunder discussion for years in the various societies of engineers ; is itnot time to look for something better ? Probably no railroad manwill assign a higher value, as a splice, to any form of splice bars thanto the heavy angle bars in use on several trunk lines, and weighing perpair of plates from 54 to 80 lbs., without the bolts, while they run inlength from 30 ins. upwards. Now, as to these, the longer they arethe more they are exposed to the constantly reversed strains, upwardsand downwards, at their center, since every wheel as it approaches,comes over and recedes from that center. Thefe are numerous, andnot at all confined to three severe wrenches upon the splice, but themost damaging are these three, two of them upward in their strain atthe middle of the splice and the middle one downward. The two arisefrom the leverage at the center from the ends of the s
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