. Electric railway gazette . FIGS. 1 AND 3. T KAIL CONSTRUCTION tTSKD ON THE STEEKT RAILWAY TRACKS IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. place at the front end of the boiler, where thejoints are easily seen by merely opening the frontdoors. RAIL CONSTRUCnON IN SPRINGFIELD,MASS. We have shown in former Issues variousmethods of T rail construction for paved other methods, used in SprlngSeld, Mass.,are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In one of these thespace on the flange side of the rail is filled withcement, concrete or asphalt filling, while in theother the space Is filled with vitrified brick rest-ing at
. Electric railway gazette . FIGS. 1 AND 3. T KAIL CONSTRUCTION tTSKD ON THE STEEKT RAILWAY TRACKS IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. place at the front end of the boiler, where thejoints are easily seen by merely opening the frontdoors. RAIL CONSTRUCnON IN SPRINGFIELD,MASS. We have shown in former Issues variousmethods of T rail construction for paved other methods, used in SprlngSeld, Mass.,are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In one of these thespace on the flange side of the rail is filled withcement, concrete or asphalt filling, while in theother the space Is filled with vitrified brick rest-ing at its outer side upon the edge an inch boa,rdnailed firmly to the side of the longltutlonalstrlngee. Fig 2 shows the two styles of construc-tion after about one years use the concrete filling When we shall have created what the railroadmen call the train 100—that Is, the train of 100tons—running for five or six consecutive hours ata speed of 100 kilometers (62i miles) in sixty min-utes, then we shall not be tar from havin
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