. Electric railway journal . progress made on laying of newtrack begun a month ago. Two sections on Broadway,one on Fifteenth Street, another on Barret Avenue, an-other on Madison and some ten blocks on Market Streetare undergoing renewal. The work of the company onWest Market Street has had to wait the constructionof a new trunk sewer and the company faces the pros-pect for a large part of the coming summer of havingto handle traffic on this line over a temporary trackand temporary switches. The accompanying illustrations show both the old andnew types of the Pennsylvania Steel Companys iron-
. Electric railway journal . progress made on laying of newtrack begun a month ago. Two sections on Broadway,one on Fifteenth Street, another on Barret Avenue, an-other on Madison and some ten blocks on Market Streetare undergoing renewal. The work of the company onWest Market Street has had to wait the constructionof a new trunk sewer and the company faces the pros-pect for a large part of the coming summer of havingto handle traffic on this line over a temporary trackand temporary switches. The accompanying illustrations show both the old andnew types of the Pennsylvania Steel Companys iron-bound Manard hard center mate, to give the clearestpossible idea of the improvements which this companyhas recently devised in electric railway mate construc-tion. Heretofore, mate centers have been supportedthroughout the entire length on a bed of spelter. Withthis kind of support, the pound of heavy traffic tends toforce the ends of the center down, and even tends toproduce a flat spot on the rails at the run-off end. This. Electric liy Journal
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