. The Street railway journal . lower than that used inmany other cities, because Berlin has such a large propor-tion of asphalted streets to take into account. One of thegreat steel furnishers uses Siemens-Martin steel, anotherBessemer, another Thomas patent steel. The Schmidtlapping-joint is considered very satisfactory in Berlin, October, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 655 while the Phcenix foot joint is favored in Dresden for in-stance. The special work such as curves, crossings, etc.,has been done to a large extent by contractors especiallyequipped for that work and not by the furnishers o
. The Street railway journal . lower than that used inmany other cities, because Berlin has such a large propor-tion of asphalted streets to take into account. One of thegreat steel furnishers uses Siemens-Martin steel, anotherBessemer, another Thomas patent steel. The Schmidtlapping-joint is considered very satisfactory in Berlin, October, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 655 while the Phcenix foot joint is favored in Dresden for in-stance. The special work such as curves, crossings, etc.,has been done to a large extent by contractors especiallyequipped for that work and not by the furnishers of therails themselves. The frogs are frequently built of regu-lar rail sections of normal profile, while hardened steel isused for points and centers. Much attention is given to rail bonding, but plastic andstranded bonds do not seem to have met with great favorperhaps because they are dependent upon the fish-plates,whereas the ordinary (Chicago) wire bonds are put onentirely independent of the rail joint itself. The fact that. CAR AND TRAILER IN LEIPZIG
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