. The street railway review . llie Steel Cos. No. rail. This rail is 9 in. highand has an end section as shown in the drawing of the cross-sectionof standard track. The weight of this rail is lb. per yd. The companys standard composite joint is <ised with this the rails have been placed on the ties, but Ixjfore they arcspiked, the ends arc all thoroughly cleaned by a portable sand Two fish plates of special form with 12 rivet holes arealso cleaned by sand blast and then placed on the rail ends and heldin position by two steel drift pins. A s
. The street railway review . llie Steel Cos. No. rail. This rail is 9 in. highand has an end section as shown in the drawing of the cross-sectionof standard track. The weight of this rail is lb. per yd. The companys standard composite joint is <ised with this the rails have been placed on the ties, but Ixjfore they arcspiked, the ends arc all thoroughly cleaned by a portable sand Two fish plates of special form with 12 rivet holes arealso cleaned by sand blast and then placed on the rail ends and heldin position by two steel drift pins. A steel straight edge is laid olthe head of the rail and the tread of the two rails brought to aneven surface by wedging. Temporary bolts are then place 1 in fourof the holes in the rails and plates and the remaining holes arcreamed out to-1 in. in diameter by a portable pneumatic reamerThe twelve l-in. rivets are then driven by a prjrtablc pneumatic riv-eter, clamping the plates solidly to the web of the rail, but leaving,. ^•»L^ SPEC1.\I. WORK KKPAIR WAGON. ments arc taken. With this arrangement the length opposite the lastnamed item is the total track length on the street recorded on th-page. These pages, one for each street, are arranged in the book order. Once each year this book is corrected and all the items adjustedto suit the existing mileage at the time of correcting. In place ofissuing a new book each year new pages are issued for those street*on which the track mileage has been changed during the periodThese pages are arranged in the same manner as the original pagesof the book, but arc printed on thin paper with a margin arrangedfor attaching to the pages which they supersede. On this marginis stated the number of the page in the book to which the new pageis to be attached and at the top of the page under the name of thestreet is the statement that for convenience in taking of measure-ments the new page should be used in place of the old
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