. The Street railway journal . Street SECTION SHOWING WOODEN MOULD FORCONDUIT. Drainage sumps of ample size arc, provided at intervals ofabout 50 yds, as the grade of the road may require, and thesesumps are trapped and connected to the nearest sewer. Another point of interest in connection with the equipmentof the lines was the fact that the present horse traffic waskept going during the reconstruction. Moreover, the vehicle traffic on the streets under I reconstruction was consid- erable, so that provisionand maintenance of a tem-porary track became animportant factor, and neces-sita
. The Street railway journal . Street SECTION SHOWING WOODEN MOULD FORCONDUIT. Drainage sumps of ample size arc, provided at intervals ofabout 50 yds, as the grade of the road may require, and thesesumps are trapped and connected to the nearest sewer. Another point of interest in connection with the equipmentof the lines was the fact that the present horse traffic waskept going during the reconstruction. Moreover, the vehicle traffic on the streets under I reconstruction was consid- erable, so that provisionand maintenance of a tem-porary track became animportant factor, and neces-sitated a special flat sectionrail which would be sur-mounted without injury tosprings of the passingvehicles. The special sec-tion now in use for this pur-pose was expressly rolledby Dick, Kerr & Company,Ltd., for the LondonCounty Council P. W. con-contract, and the specialwork was supplied by theLorain Steel Company andHadfields Steel FoundryCompany, of Sheffield. As stated there were twocontractors for the work,J. G. White & Company, ofLondon, built the first sec-tion, and D
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