. The Street railway journal . THE COMPLETED LOOPS AT THE FERRY BUILDING been necessitated by the changing of the old. cable linesover to operation by electricity, the alteration consistingprincipally in taking out the old cable rails, slot rails andyokes and relaying the track with heavy girder rails. Onmany of the old electric lines new rails had to be laid and city. The lack of interruption to service was due to therebeing four tracks on this portion of Market Street, two ofwhich could be temporarily out of commission at a was first started on the outer north track an4 thenon the
. The Street railway journal . THE COMPLETED LOOPS AT THE FERRY BUILDING been necessitated by the changing of the old. cable linesover to operation by electricity, the alteration consistingprincipally in taking out the old cable rails, slot rails andyokes and relaying the track with heavy girder rails. Onmany of the old electric lines new rails had to be laid and city. The lack of interruption to service was due to therebeing four tracks on this portion of Market Street, two ofwhich could be temporarily out of commission at a was first started on the outer north track an4 thenon the south outer track. The north inner track was next. PLAN OF LOOPS AT FERRY BUILDING a large portion of the roadbed worked over to eliminate thedamage caused by the .earthquake and the subsequent heavytraffic during the removal of debris. On lower Market Street, in addition to altering the cabletracks for permanent electric operation, the entire roadbedfrom Sansome Street to the Ferry Building has been raised raised and finally the south inner track is now beingbrought up to the required level while the cars are beingoperated on the outer tracks. The different stages of the work are well illustrated bythe accompanying photographs. First the old track railswere removed and then the slot rails. These rails had been January 18, 1908.]. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 69 in service for more than twenty years and were so wellsecured in a solid roadbed that even though laid entirelyon made ground they were not damaged by the a good-sized fill had to be made nearly the entire length steam roller and brought up to a point two inches below
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