. The Street railway journal . STANDARD CLOSED CAR ties. This is to keep the sand in which the paving blocksare imbedded from sifting down into interstices betweenthe blocks of broken stone. This practice has greatly im-proved the quality and life of the pavement. The com-pany paves to a foot outside of its rails. There are a large tances on straight track sheet are noted by 1000-ft. sta-tions. Cross streets are not shown, only the exact locationof the intersection of the cross street nearest each Points of special work, curves, change of rail sec-tion and change of pavement,
. The Street railway journal . STANDARD CLOSED CAR ties. This is to keep the sand in which the paving blocksare imbedded from sifting down into interstices betweenthe blocks of broken stone. This practice has greatly im-proved the quality and life of the pavement. The com-pany paves to a foot outside of its rails. There are a large tances on straight track sheet are noted by 1000-ft. sta-tions. Cross streets are not shown, only the exact locationof the intersection of the cross street nearest each Points of special work, curves, change of rail sec-tion and change of pavement, or a change in the kind of. STANDARD OPEN CAR number of cast-welded joints on the system, and more willbe put in this fall. They were put in by the MilwaukeeRail Joint & Welding Company, and the railway companyitself, which now owns its own welding outfit. These jointshave given excellent satisfaction. In connection with the track work it should be statedthat data relating to this department are kept in a very sys-tematic manner. In general the idea is to get all the in- joints are noted in feet, counting from the preceding 1000-ft. station. In the special work record a sketch is made ofeach piece of work, noting joints and giving each frog andswitch the same number as that in the original shop draw-ing from which the work was made. The connecting railsare also noted, so that special splice bars can be made atany time without disturbing the track until they are readyto be put on. Adjacent to each sketch is placed the name 794 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 35. of the company by which the work was mad
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