. The Street railway journal . ated with the street railway company. The park, whichis located about 3 miles from the center of the city, coversabout forty acres. Music is furnished by an orchestra, andon account of the convenience and low cost of access to thispark large crowds attend it on good days, requiring; attimes from forty to fifty cable trains to handle them. TRACK CONSTRUCTION IN KANSAS CITY Practically all of the tracks in Kansas City are laid withcenter-bearing rails—with the ball of the rail above thestreet level—the companies never having been compelledby city ordinance to use s
. The Street railway journal . ated with the street railway company. The park, whichis located about 3 miles from the center of the city, coversabout forty acres. Music is furnished by an orchestra, andon account of the convenience and low cost of access to thispark large crowds attend it on good days, requiring; attimes from forty to fifty cable trains to handle them. TRACK CONSTRUCTION IN KANSAS CITY Practically all of the tracks in Kansas City are laid withcenter-bearing rails—with the ball of the rail above thestreet level—the companies never having been compelledby city ordinance to use side-bearing rails. Some side-bearing rails have been put in, but have given troublethrough tipping outward. All tracks recently laid are 103-lb. 60-ft. center-bearing girder rails, made by the LorainSteel Company. In the asphalted streets of the downtowndistrict the construction described by Mr. Butts at the Chi-cago convention, and illustrated on page 795 of the StreetRailway Journal for November, 1899, is used; the rails. CABLE TRAIN ON TWELFTH STREET LINE gi6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 41. being bedded in a concrete stringer about 15 ins. deepfrom the top of the rail, and about 20 ins. wide over ties or tie-rods whatever are used in streets which areasphalted from curb to curb, the rails being held to gage by
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