. Electric railway journal . requent inspection, etc. These items thecommittee had apparently not included in their conclu-sions. Inasmuch as the committee, in arriving at a definiteratio of economic advantage in the one type of construc-tion over another, had assumed certain figures in the rel-ative life of the two kinds of construction and had madeother necessary assumptions which were not broughtout in great detail in the report, the association voted torefer this recommendation back to the committee forfurther consideration. Compromise Joints Improved byArc Welding BY JOSEPH MCPHEE Roadmas
. Electric railway journal . requent inspection, etc. These items thecommittee had apparently not included in their conclu-sions. Inasmuch as the committee, in arriving at a definiteratio of economic advantage in the one type of construc-tion over another, had assumed certain figures in the rel-ative life of the two kinds of construction and had madeother necessary assumptions which were not broughtout in great detail in the report, the association voted torefer this recommendation back to the committee forfurther consideration. Compromise Joints Improved byArc Welding BY JOSEPH MCPHEE Roadmaster Richmond Light & Railroad Company,New Brighton, N. Y. There are a number of locations on our system wheresections of T-rail join sections of girder rail. The oc-currence of bad and broken joints at these places havebeen eliminated by making arc-welded compromisejoints such as shown in the accompanying Indianapolis welder is used, and care is taken toget a good body of welding steel where the rail ends. COMPROMISE TRACK JOINTS MADE BY ARC WELDING are joined together. After the welding is completedthe heads of the rails are ground to a smooth surface. The cost of making a welded compromise joint be-tween a Lorain T-rail section No. 47 and a Lorain gir-der rail section No. 84 is approximately $8, which in-cludes the cost of the welding steel. Several of thesejoints have been in service for more than two years andare still satisfactory in every respect. 604 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 13 New Interior Views of ToledoCenter-Exit Cars The accompanying views of the interior of one of thesixty front-entrance, center-exit cars, which are givingexcellent service in Toledo were recently taken for theElectric Railway Journal through the courtesy ofH. H. Ross, chief engineer. As was explained in ar-ticles which appeared in the issue of this paper forOct. 7, 1916, pages 723 and 738, the interesting featureof these cars is the provision for train control, this
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