. The street railway review . FIG. 2.—JOINT. tion. The rails are of a T-section, 6 in. high, and weighing 100 yd.; they wTre rolled by the Lackawanna Steel Co., and havethe following composition, aside from the iron: Carbon, ;manganese, ; sulphur, ; phosphorus, P^r cent. Therails are each 60 ft. long and are erected in sections of 300 ft.; themiddle rail of each section is fastened by four anchor clips, spaced4 ft. 6 in., to prevent longitudinal motion, but elsewhere the rails.

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