Identifier: streetrailwayjo111895newy (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
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A FANCY DRESS BALL IN VICTORIA SKATING RINK.nul St. Henri Streets exactly to gauge, (rrouling is ihen iiiii in all along therail on both sides ot the web, so that the rail becomes, ineffect, a long rectangular paving block, against whichplaced nor how the routes could be arranged to secure a may be placed the corresponding surfaces of the granitelarger traffic. Nearly every settled section of the city is paving blocks, which are then packed so solidly into 14 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL SOUVENIR, October, 1895,
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■ ■ ■—I jiMgnp^^wBgsrJ October, 1895. THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL SOUVENIR. IS place that spreading of the rails is impossible. The finalfits are made with cut stone and the edges are chamferedoff next the rails. Where the old horse car tracks were relaid and the tieswere found in good condition, they were not disturbed,but the spaces between were filled with concrete and thelatter tamped in under the ties, so as to form what ispractically equivalent to the solid concrete flooring of thenew construction.

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