. The street railway review . e a Anneta Buckwalter was the happy bride. (^/ti£ctlF(ailM^J^VlcW* 749 CAST-WELDING RAIL JOINTS. The New Process of Making Continuous Track —A PromisingRival of Electric Welding—Three Miles Laid at St Louis. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky came theannouncement, several months ago, that the Falk Manu-factuiing Company, of Milwaukee, would soon come for-ward with a process of welding cast iron around railjoints which would make a continuous track and seri- and how anxious street railway men are to find some-thing that will do away with those ever
. The street railway review . e a Anneta Buckwalter was the happy bride. (^/ti£ctlF(ailM^J^VlcW* 749 CAST-WELDING RAIL JOINTS. The New Process of Making Continuous Track —A PromisingRival of Electric Welding—Three Miles Laid at St Louis. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky came theannouncement, several months ago, that the Falk Manu-factuiing Company, of Milwaukee, would soon come for-ward with a process of welding cast iron around railjoints which would make a continuous track and seri- and how anxious street railway men are to find some-thing that will do away with those everlasting nuisances,the rail joints. Immediately after convention, work began at St. Louis,and the joints have been cast on about three miles oftrack there. This track was laid some time ago, withcommon angle bar joints but no traffic has passed over theroad e.\cept that of teams so that the track is practicallynew and on an equal basis with the electric welded tracklaid last spring. Besides that mentioned, 37 joints which. REAUY FOR WORK. ously compete with electric welding. It was the sud-denness with which this process came forward thatstartled the electric railway world. It is not often thatany industrial method comes so absolutely without warn-ing and apparently without any evolution. The usualcourse is a long series of experiments and investigationsbefore even an attempt is made in a commercial after the commercial application begins there isa still further evolution. The process was shown at the Atlanta convention, andthe constant throng of visitors which crowded aroundthe place where the work was going on, and preventedmany from seeing as much as they wished, showedhow vitally important the work was considered to be have broken on the six miles of electrically welded trackhave been repaired by the cast-welding process. Thelatter work was done in two evenings work of threehours each. The accompanying engravings show thework in progress. The outfit used is not
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