. The street railway review . ting recently with a third rail laidmidway between the track rails. A double track 3^^miles long from East Weymouth to Nantasket Junctionhas been equipjied with the third rail and extensivelytested during the past iiKjnth. Of course it is not properto pronounce it a success electrically until it has seen aservice of a year and all kinds of weather, but mechan-ically it has been found to be all right. The shape ofthe rail is an inverted V as shown in the accompaningsketches. It is supported every 10 feet by ash blocks onties which have been boiled in vacuum pans wi
. The street railway review . ting recently with a third rail laidmidway between the track rails. A double track 3^^miles long from East Weymouth to Nantasket Junctionhas been equipjied with the third rail and extensivelytested during the past iiKjnth. Of course it is not properto pronounce it a success electrically until it has seen aservice of a year and all kinds of weather, but mechan-ically it has been found to be all right. The shape ofthe rail is an inverted V as shown in the accompaningsketches. It is supported every 10 feet by ash blocks onties which have been boiled in vacuum pans with a farcompound which fills the pores of the wood. The shoeused is like that used on the Metropolitan shoe is hung from each truck of the car so thatinterruptions in the third rail less than the distancebetween truck centers do not interfere with the currentsupply. Where as at some highway crossings the lengthof the break is greater than this the cars must run bymomentum from one section to the next. This is the. :^ECTION THROUGH TRACK WITH THIRD KAIL. first steam surface road to be equipped with a third railfor electric traction and consequently much interestattended the formal trial of this section on June large party of railroad officers, electrical engineersand newspaper men was present. The trial was suc-cessful in every way and a speed of 70 miles an hour issaid to have been reached. Col. N. H. Heft has chargeof the electrical work on the road and President C. is taking much interest in these trials. The capital stock of the consolidation of the ToledoTraction Company and the Toledo Electric Street Rail-way Company is fixed at $6,000,000, with 40,000 sharescommon and preferred stock. The Toledo Elec-tric will receive $150,000 preferred and $1,200,000 incommon stock, and the Traction Company $1,850,000preferred and $2,800,000 common. Mortgage bonds tothe amount of $6,000,000 are to be floated, secured byfirst mortgage to a New York trust c
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