The Street railway journal (1902) (14574214468)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (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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les west of New Castle. hi an accident at Boulder one woman was killed and twentypersons injured. In this accident two heavily loaded cars, runningas a train, rushed down a hill with tremendous velocity, overturn-ing at a bend in the track. ♦♦♦ A Cheap and Durable Cattle Guard Cattle guards are becoming a subject of increasing interest toelectric interurban lines which are now generally built on a privateright of way. Since the abandonment by steam roads of the oldstyle pit cattle guard, which was expensive to construct and main-tain, and introduced an objectionable break in the continuity oftlie roadbed, many patented forms of guards, intended to lie ontop of the ties, have been introduced, one of which combiningsimplicity and cheapness is the Climax guard, which is made ofsections of vitrified clay. A photograph of one of these guards is re-produced herewith. The sections from which a guard is made up are24 ins. long, gi-; ;ns. wjde and 154 ins. high. Each piece is of inverted
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CATTLE GUARD FOR INTERURBAN AND SUBURBAN ROADS W form, the walls of which are iJ4 ins. thick. The sections are made2 ft. long to exactly bridge the space between two ties, and they restdirectly on the ties. For each 8 ft. x 8 ft. guard there are 40 blocksor sections. A wood strip is laid around the guard to hold thesections in place, and their weight is sufficient to hold them downwithout other fastening. Among the numerous advantages urgedfor this guard are that it is made of a material that the weatherhas no effect upon, it is handsome in appearance, never needs paint-ing, cannot burn, is free from accumulations of snow and dirt,allows no weeds to grow through it; it cannot injure employeescrossing over it, and stands the chance of least financial damagefrom low brake beams or wrecks. This is a comparatively newguard, but is finding ready adoption upon both steam and electricroads. The new Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway is using theseexclusively, having ordered over 700. They h