. The street railway review . On or 50 motor-driven equiprneri nstalled on car-, belong ing to the Government Tramways in Sydney Australia; prito this the same road had ; Chi in operation INTERESTING MANGANESE SPECIAL WORK The accompanying illustrations show some interesting exam- ol special track containing parts of manganese steel, withwhich William Wharton Jr. & Co, Inc., has had great SUThe company has overcome the difficulties of casting this metalin complicated shapes and can therefore use it more extensivelyin T-rail work. The top view shows a steam and street railway crossing madeby
. The street railway review . On or 50 motor-driven equiprneri nstalled on car-, belong ing to the Government Tramways in Sydney Australia; prito this the same road had ; Chi in operation INTERESTING MANGANESE SPECIAL WORK The accompanying illustrations show some interesting exam- ol special track containing parts of manganese steel, withwhich William Wharton Jr. & Co, Inc., has had great SUThe company has overcome the difficulties of casting this metalin complicated shapes and can therefore use it more extensivelyin T-rail work. The top view shows a steam and street railway crossing madeby the Wharton company under the N nts, in which the usual combination of tunning rail,easerrail,guard rail,and fjthe steam railroad track has been united into one single manganesesteel casting, which is usually made 16 ft. long overall. The illus-shows a good end view of this rail and shows also how[he connection is made with the steel rail in the steam railroadtrack. The street railways rails in this crossing are made of. MANGANESE SPECIAL WORK. ordinary steel castings of the height corresponding to the steamrailroad rail, where they rest on the tics of the steam railroad?nd shaped on the exteremc ends to match the girder rail of thestreet railways track, thereby avoiding the usual combinationjoints. As the steam railroad rail with the cross grooves of thestreet railway is all of manganese steel, the points of greater wearare protected by this metal, and there is a further advantage inthe reduction of the number of pieces and number of bolts whichare usually found in steam railroad crossings of ordinary remarkable ductility of manganese steel, although at thesame time it is very hard, permitted the introduction of this ma-terial into steam tracks. The skepticism of the steam railroad engi-neers in that respect was easily overcome by the Wharton com-pany by a number of very - on manganese steel cast-ings, of the character used, under drop weights, etc., beforeengineers
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