. The Street railway journal . ■it. liy. JvUfnal CROSS-SECTION OF STANDARD T-RAIL CONSTRUCTION IN KANSAS CITY in other portions of the city T-rails of standard A. S. C. and weighing 80 lbs. and 100 lbs. per yard are ties rest on rock ballast instead of the concrete bedoften used in other cities. One reason why ballast is con-sidered preferable is that should the tracks ever be takenup the work would be much easier. The concrete base forthe asphalt surface extends to within 2 ins. of the bottomof the ties. A specially formed brick with a nose fitting inunder the rail is used
. The Street railway journal . ■it. liy. JvUfnal CROSS-SECTION OF STANDARD T-RAIL CONSTRUCTION IN KANSAS CITY in other portions of the city T-rails of standard A. S. C. and weighing 80 lbs. and 100 lbs. per yard are ties rest on rock ballast instead of the concrete bedoften used in other cities. One reason why ballast is con-sidered preferable is that should the tracks ever be takenup the work would be much easier. The concrete base forthe asphalt surface extends to within 2 ins. of the bottomof the ties. A specially formed brick with a nose fitting inunder the rail is used on the gage side of the rail. Thelatter is filled on the outside with a grouting of two partssand to one of cement, and against this an ordinary vitrified. ONE OF THE FURNACES, W^ITH PANS FILLED READY FOR FIRING. A PILE OF OLD ASPHALT FORMS THE BACKGROUND paving brick is placed. Attempts to extend the asphaltpaving up to the rail in Kansas City have resulted in failuredue to the disintegration of the asphalt. The railway company is required to keep up the pavingbetween the tracks and for 18 ins. on either side of the out-side rails. For several years the company contracted forthe asphalt resurfacing, but for two years this workhas been done by the company itself at a much reduced old asphalt is brought from the city, reheated, strength-ened with new asphalt and relaid. The accompanying illustrations show the plant located inthe outskirts of the city for working over the asphalt. Theequipment for this purpose consists essentially of furnaces with their adjacent ends just far enough apart to permit thefurnace stack to extend up between them. The old ma-terial is broken up in pieces about 5 ins. square and the pansare fill
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