. Electric railway journal . TYPICAL FAILURE IN SOLID CASTING AT RAILINTERSECTION IN CROSSING fishplates are entirely eliminated in crossings of 90deg. to approximately 45 deg. The first of these crossings was installed in June,1915, where the service conditions soon proved thatit was as correct in practice as in theory. This partic-ular crossing, which is 90 deg., is at an intersection ofthe New York Central main line and the Baltimore &Ohios ore and coal carrying line at Painesville, service at this intersection is so severe that cross-ings of Bessemer or open-hearth rolled rails av
. Electric railway journal . TYPICAL FAILURE IN SOLID CASTING AT RAILINTERSECTION IN CROSSING fishplates are entirely eliminated in crossings of 90deg. to approximately 45 deg. The first of these crossings was installed in June,1915, where the service conditions soon proved thatit was as correct in practice as in theory. This partic-ular crossing, which is 90 deg., is at an intersection ofthe New York Central main line and the Baltimore &Ohios ore and coal carrying line at Painesville, service at this intersection is so severe that cross-ings of Bessemer or open-hearth rolled rails averageonly a fraction of the life already obtained with thearticulated design, and the latter after two and one-half years of service is only half worn out. After re-surfacing, this crossing will be in position to give at. AN ARTICULATED MANGANESE ANGLE CROSSING least two or more years service at this location. Sincethe installation on this pioneer crossing several scorehave been installed throughout the Central and West-ern States at points with particularly severe service. In order to make this type of crossing and other spe-cial work inventions immediately accessible to railwaysthroughout the United States and Canada, the Balkwill 194 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 4
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