. The Street railway journal . hing contact be-tween the car and the section of third rail, a positive and quick-acting medium for automatically actuating the signals will be weeds. After that they are cut at intervals as often as theygrow beyond a certain height. The Toledo, Port Clinton &Lakeside burns weeds with hand torches early in the spring andcuts them twice during the summer. The Interurban Railway& Terminal Company has used weed exterminator sprinkledover the line with a sprinkling car with considerable success, thecost being about $20 per mile for material and labor. TheDayton & Wes
. The Street railway journal . hing contact be-tween the car and the section of third rail, a positive and quick-acting medium for automatically actuating the signals will be weeds. After that they are cut at intervals as often as theygrow beyond a certain height. The Toledo, Port Clinton &Lakeside burns weeds with hand torches early in the spring andcuts them twice during the summer. The Interurban Railway& Terminal Company has used weed exterminator sprinkledover the line with a sprinkling car with considerable success, thecost being about $20 per mile for material and labor. TheDayton & Western tried this plan, and while it killed the weedsit also killed several cows that had browsed on the right of way,bringing the cost of weed killing up to a prohibitive figure. Theweed-burning car designed by Manager Darrow, of the Toledo& Indiana, described in the STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL forAug. 4, 1906, is reported to be giving excellent cost of exterminating is said to be but $3 a mile. Man-. secured irrespective of the rate of speed at which the car is mov-ing. This third rail is shown on one of the engravings accom-panying this chapter. MISCELLANEOUS WAY MATTERSConsiderable attention is now being paid to fencing and main-taining fences along private right of way. Roads which followor parallel pikes, as a rule, are permitted to fence only on oneside, but the cross-country lines almost without exception arefenced on both sides. In one or two cases, notably on the To-ledo & Indiana, where the right of way adjoins that of the LakeShore (steam) Railroad, the roads by mutual agreement havedispensed with the fence between the rights of way, and theyco-operate in the maintenance of a common ditch. Woven wirefences are used by practically all the roads. Several roads usea fence having a fine mesh below and a large mesh above, thesmaller mesh keeping out small domestic animals. Several roadsuse iron posts for fence posts. The roads are about equally divided between
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