. Electric railway review . chipped it off and had no trouble at all with thepavement, although he thought they would have that troublein Cleveland. In Minneapolis they had taught the driversof vehicles to keep out of the car tracks. Mr. Reel, in connection with Mr. Baggs remark, read aletter from Mr. F. E. Crane, city engineer of Amsterdam, to January 26, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 115 show what Tie had to say about these roads. Amsterdam hadthe oldest piece of Trail construction in the state of NewYork; it had been in seven years. Mr. Bagg said that in Gloversville there was some thathad
. Electric railway review . chipped it off and had no trouble at all with thepavement, although he thought they would have that troublein Cleveland. In Minneapolis they had taught the driversof vehicles to keep out of the car tracks. Mr. Reel, in connection with Mr. Baggs remark, read aletter from Mr. F. E. Crane, city engineer of Amsterdam, to January 26, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 115 show what Tie had to say about these roads. Amsterdam hadthe oldest piece of Trail construction in the state of NewYork; it had been in seven years. Mr. Bagg said that in Gloversville there was some thathad been in ten years. secured for putting double tracks in the street, whereas theTrail was in such condition that it would last four or fiverears to come. This work was paved in with good old fash-ioned cobble pavement. Of course, this was a type of pavingthat heavy teams would naturally keep away from, so that Mr. \V. R W. Griffin (Rochester & Eastern) related that perhaps the team argument would not apply in this - - .. Standard Rail Sections—Section Showing T-Rail and Scoria Block Construction in Montreal. In 1901, in Bellevue. O., a town of 5,000 inhabitants, theylaid the 70-pound T-rail. and the pavement was put in at thattime. There was no concrete used, nothing but a sub-grade,and a buffer of sand rolled down. They used nose brick thatwent underneath the rail. Last summer he examined it andcould not see where the pavement had rutted—could not seebut that the brick anywhere near the rail was in as goodshape as any other part of the street. The town did not haveany extraordinary heavy teaming; but the pavement waslight because of that fact. Mr. M. .1. French stated that there was some 70-pound T-rail In Itica that was laid in 1894. and previously, and also Last year there was laid on a portion of Genessee streetabout 1,800 feet of double-track T-rail construction, using a7-inch Trail weighing 95 pounds to the yard, and the Arthurhump block, made by the Metropolita
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