. The Street railway journal . O O a Ll jJ_. ; Slrta ] -850—- STANDARD RAIL AND MITERED JOINT serted with an outlet, which terminates below in a pipeconnecting with the city drainage system. The insertionof such a device costs about 300 marks ($75) per doubletrack, and along the entire 266 cm (166 miles) of trackthere are, in all, more than 300 such drains. Switch tongues are constructed of Siemens-Martin caststeel in one piece, and the material has a tensile strengthof at least 65 kg per sq. mm. Movable tongues are counter-weighted. The counterweight case is not drained and theaccumu
. The Street railway journal . O O a Ll jJ_. ; Slrta ] -850—- STANDARD RAIL AND MITERED JOINT serted with an outlet, which terminates below in a pipeconnecting with the city drainage system. The insertionof such a device costs about 300 marks ($75) per doubletrack, and along the entire 266 cm (166 miles) of trackthere are, in all, more than 300 such drains. Switch tongues are constructed of Siemens-Martin caststeel in one piece, and the material has a tensile strengthof at least 65 kg per sq. mm. Movable tongues are counter-weighted. The counterweight case is not drained and theaccumulated water is removed by means of a hand switch-boxes, which are controlled by levers, how-ever, are connected to the citydrainage system. The companyis opposed to the use of thoseswitches which are automaticallyset by the cars, and prefers eitherthose set by the motormen, orthose operated by switchmen. In1899 the company tried switcheshaving two tongues, a commontype in Germany, but they werenot found
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