. Electric railway journal . ionwith regard to the use of T-rail in connection with the en-tire mileage of the electric railways in the State of Con-necticut. DIVISION OF T-RAILS AND GIRDER RAILS IN CONNECTICUT Recourse is had to the report of the Public Utilities Com-mission of Connecticut for the year ended June 30, 1912,which is one of the very few state reports giving data as totype of rails and pavements used by street railways. Ananalysis of the report shows that the ten operating com- panies reported a total of 1055 miles of single track. Fivecompanies, operating about 150 miles, report
. Electric railway journal . ionwith regard to the use of T-rail in connection with the en-tire mileage of the electric railways in the State of Con-necticut. DIVISION OF T-RAILS AND GIRDER RAILS IN CONNECTICUT Recourse is had to the report of the Public Utilities Com-mission of Connecticut for the year ended June 30, 1912,which is one of the very few state reports giving data as totype of rails and pavements used by street railways. Ananalysis of the report shows that the ten operating com- panies reported a total of 1055 miles of single track. Fivecompanies, operating about 150 miles, reported no girder railwhatever, thus confining the use of girder rail to the otherfive, four of which reported only 7 miles of girder railabout evenly divided between the tram and the groovegirder types. Of the total mileage in the State, approximately 93 percent is laid with T-rail, per cent with tram girder and 2]/2 per cent with girder. It may be remarked here that substantially. Rail and Paving Results—Hump Block Paving, Bridgeport,After Three and a Half Years Service 91 per cent of the girder rail mileage is confined to thelines of the Connecticut Company, with about 60 per cent ofthis confined, in turn, to the lines in Hartford. In that citypractically all of the original tracks were laid with tramgirder rail, and these must be replaced with groove girder,as occasion arises, in accordance with an agreement be-tween the city and the company made several years prior tothe time that the Connecticut Company acquired control ofthe property. DIVISION OF PAVEMENTS IN CONNECTICUT With regard to pavement, an analysis of the reportshows a total of 336 miles of single track paved with vari-ous types of pavement. Included in pavement, however, are26 miles of stone ballast (backfill above ties) which is notproperly to be considered as pavement except for purposesof accounting. The net mileage of paved track is found tobe 310 miles, or appr
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