The Street railway journal (1896) (14739140906)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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CABLE SYSTEMSeLECTRIC UNDERGROUNDSYSTEMS 164 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. lo.
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European Representative, ROBERT W. BLACKWELL, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S. W. H E V* MANUFACTURING CO. How to Bring Depressed Rail Ends to Surface. The Weber mil joint—a standard joint onseveral of the largest steam railroad systems ofthe East and one which has been adoptedwithin the past few years by a number of prom-inent street railway companies for girder railwork—is designed to accomplish, and does infact accomplish, two important things. This statement will doubtless be questionedby many street railway managers who havenothing but poor track to show after a series ofmore or less promising experiments in joint con-struction. We propose to show in these pages,however, first, why this joint ought theoret=ically to do what we claim for it, and,