. Electric railway journal . Cincinnati Track Construction—Discharge End of Con-crete Mixer plates which are removed when the permanent joint is ap-plied. As a rule the delivery of crushed stone and sandfollows the track laying, so that the cars on which theyare loaded may be run over the new track and the stoneor sand dumped on the shoulder of the trench. All mate-rial is distributed with a view of eliminating unnecessary. Cincinnati Track Construction—Charging End of ConcreteMixer ordinary 4-in. farm drain tile laid with open joints is placedin this trench on a 3-in. layer of washed river gr
. Electric railway journal . Cincinnati Track Construction—Discharge End of Con-crete Mixer plates which are removed when the permanent joint is ap-plied. As a rule the delivery of crushed stone and sandfollows the track laying, so that the cars on which theyare loaded may be run over the new track and the stoneor sand dumped on the shoulder of the trench. All mate-rial is distributed with a view of eliminating unnecessary. Cincinnati Track Construction—Charging End of ConcreteMixer ordinary 4-in. farm drain tile laid with open joints is placedin this trench on a 3-in. layer of washed river gravel. Asecond 3-in. layer of washed gravel is deposited over thetop of the tile and thoroughly tamped around it, carebeing taken, however, to keep the tile in perfect line andsurface during tamping. The top layer of gravel is cov-ered over with earth, which is also packed with track drain is connected to the city sewer system atintervals of 600 ft. where the track grade is continuousand at all breaks in grades. Surface drainage is providedby concrete inlets set in the flangeways inside the precaution is taken in applying the grout filler tomake the pavement thoroughly waterproof. TRACK LAYING After the subgrade has been prepared, the ties arebrought to the job in dump cars which run on the trackparalleling the one undergoing reconstruction. The sideboards on one side of these dump cars are
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