. Electric railway journal . Section of Rail and Joint Special Work with New Type of Joint base. As will be seen from the accompanying section, thejoint has two parts besides the bolts; one of these con-sists of a side and base member and the other of a sidemember only. The especial advantage of this constructionis that on one side the joint members do not project be-yond the base of the rail; hence by placing the plates sothat this side of the joint is on the inside of the frog thisjoint can be used with perfect satisfaction in bolting upstraight track with special work. In fact, it permits t
. Electric railway journal . Section of Rail and Joint Special Work with New Type of Joint base. As will be seen from the accompanying section, thejoint has two parts besides the bolts; one of these con-sists of a side and base member and the other of a sidemember only. The especial advantage of this constructionis that on one side the joint members do not project be-yond the base of the rail; hence by placing the plates sothat this side of the joint is on the inside of the frog thisjoint can be used with perfect satisfaction in bolting upstraight track with special work. In fact, it permits theuse of as long joint plates as could be used with ordinaryangle bar construction, yet provides the base support char-acteristic of the Continuous joint. Besides its applicationto frogs and switches, this joint is equally well adaptedto cross-overs and rails with guards; in fact, to any posi-tions where the bases of the rails abut. Considerabletrouble was originally encountered by the Rail Joint Com-pany in designing the ro
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