. The Street railway journal . 6g8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 31. lines the Phoenix model 5 F is used, with a weight of be-tween 65 lbs. and 70 lbs. All the angle-plates have threebolts on either side of the joint, and the Edison-Brownplastic bond is used, with three or four 00 copper wires at later. The unit of conduit is a two-duct piece, 70 cm(29^ ins.) in length, each duct having a 2^-in. bore. Thesepieces are laid edge to edge and bound with tar paper, asshown in one of the illustrations, and they are then grouted. OFFICE, CAR HOUSE, ETC., AT LA JONCTION STANDARD SECTION OF RA
. The Street railway journal . 6g8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 31. lines the Phoenix model 5 F is used, with a weight of be-tween 65 lbs. and 70 lbs. All the angle-plates have threebolts on either side of the joint, and the Edison-Brownplastic bond is used, with three or four 00 copper wires at later. The unit of conduit is a two-duct piece, 70 cm(29^ ins.) in length, each duct having a 2^-in. bore. Thesepieces are laid edge to edge and bound with tar paper, asshown in one of the illustrations, and they are then grouted. OFFICE, CAR HOUSE, ETC., AT LA JONCTION STANDARD SECTION OF RAIL crossings. The nature of the track and roadbed construc-tion can be seen from the views presented. All the trackin the city is carried on concrete girders, with a height of[2 ins. and a breadth of 10 ins., while the total depth ofmasonry under the track is 1 m. This solidity is not onlydue to the fact that the bed has to stand the crushing strainof the citys 15-ton road rollers, but because the streets aregenerally dug out of slimy clay soil, which has a meantrick of caving in, so that special stability was the best 10 cm (4 ins.) on all sides, making a solid, impermeable,yet easily accessible, system. In some places, as in themain thoroughfare, the Rue du Rhone, the conduit isunder the track. The number of ducts varies from placeto place,, according to the requirements, being twenty inthe section across from the power house to the Plaine dePlainpalais, and twelve, eight, six, four, etc., in other partsof the city. The s
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