. Electric railway journal . CONCRETE PAVEMENT AND REINFORCING AROUND SPECIAL WORK 322 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. 50, Mo. 8 made of old rails spaced 18 in. apart, fastened to therail with V2-in. x 2-in. clamps bolted with %-in. two pictures shown on page 321 give an idea of thefoundation and paving construction. Feeder Taps Anchored to Carhouse A method of dead-ending a feeder in a neat, simpleand rugged way is shown herewith. Feeder taps to the carhouse contactbars are taken offthis horizontal cablewhich runs alongthe end of thebuilding to the pointwhere it is fastenedto a brack
. Electric railway journal . CONCRETE PAVEMENT AND REINFORCING AROUND SPECIAL WORK 322 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. 50, Mo. 8 made of old rails spaced 18 in. apart, fastened to therail with V2-in. x 2-in. clamps bolted with %-in. two pictures shown on page 321 give an idea of thefoundation and paving construction. Feeder Taps Anchored to Carhouse A method of dead-ending a feeder in a neat, simpleand rugged way is shown herewith. Feeder taps to the carhouse contactbars are taken offthis horizontal cablewhich runs alongthe end of thebuilding to the pointwhere it is fastenedto a bracket boltedto the means of astrain insulator onthis bracket thecable is firmly an-chored and at thesame time kept atthe proper distance from the side of the building. Thisis a detail of the equipment of the carhouse of theSpringfield (Mass.) Street Railway, a general descrip-tion of which appears elsewhere in this METHOD OF ANCHORING FEEDER TOSIDE OF CARHOUSE Preferred Lengths for City Cars A Classification of City Car Orders for Last YearShows that 33 Ft. for Single-Truck Cars and45 Ft. for Double-Truck Cars Are theMost Popular Lengths In the accompanying diagram there have been classi-fied, according to over-all length of car, all of theorders for city cars whose details were published inthe Electric Railway Journal during the year includes approximately three-quarters of the carspurchased throughout the country during the this means there is clearly displayed the fact thatcars of over-all lengths between 34 ft. and 41 ft. areso much in the minority as to permit these dimensionsto be called unpopular, and if one accepts the hypothesisthat general tendencies displayed by the industry as awhole are indicative of best practice, the adoption oflengths between these limits should be avoided in thepurchase of new equipment. Small Cars for One-Man and Two-ManOperation At the left
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