. The street railway review . CROSS SECTION OF TRACK CONSTRUCTION WITH STONE BALLAST. gage blocks. These forms are built in sections, so that as one por-tion of the concrete bed sets the form shaping it can be movedahead to the new work. Up to this stage of the construction splice bars are used to makethe rail joints. When the concrete bed is being placed, space is leftaround the joints. When the bed has set. the fish plates are re-. RAILS ON CONCRETE BED READY FUR ASPHALT PAVEMENT. Each moved and the joints cast-welded by the Falk Cos. process,joint is made with a pouring of about 125 lb. of
. The street railway review . CROSS SECTION OF TRACK CONSTRUCTION WITH STONE BALLAST. gage blocks. These forms are built in sections, so that as one por-tion of the concrete bed sets the form shaping it can be movedahead to the new work. Up to this stage of the construction splice bars are used to makethe rail joints. When the concrete bed is being placed, space is leftaround the joints. When the bed has set. the fish plates are re-. RAILS ON CONCRETE BED READY FUR ASPHALT PAVEMENT. Each moved and the joints cast-welded by the Falk Cos. process,joint is made with a pouring of about 125 lb. of iron. One of the illustrations shows the upper surface of the concretebed broken away at the end of the special work. This is the fin-ished surface ready for the pavement cushion of a 1 to 21/? mixtureof cement and sand. The track construction in the residence portion of the city is builtwith ties on stone ballast, conforming to the dimensions shown in rebuilt and a large portion of the old material replaced. The pole*in the business portion of the city are of tubular steel set in con-crete. These poles carry the ordinary type of span constructionwith one No. o trolley and Ohio Brass Co. fittings. Supplementaryto the trolley wire are two No. 0000 weatherproof feeders, extending2^2 miles from the power house, the outlying portion of the linebeing fed with one No. 00 weatherproof feeder.
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