Identifier: electricrailway451915newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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26 (March 20, 1915
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64 regular electric cars and18 regular steam trainshave passed over thiscrossing daily for 25months without showingany wear on the substruc-ture. The crossing is stillin excellent condition,while heretofore it wasnecessary to replace thecrossing every 24 months. Steel Foundations for Grade Crossings are no longer an experiment. They are a demon-strated, economical success. After being sub-jected to the hardest kind of traffic for more thantwo years, the -steel foundations of the crossingshown in the illustration herewith are found in-tact in every respect. Not even a bolt was loos-ened during the two years service; not a particleof wear was noticeable on the steel longitudinalswhich carry the rails at the crossing; not a clipwas sheared; not an inch of creeping wasnoticeable, and what is more important, the steel crossing itself had withstood the service duringthis period of twenty-five months with but littlewear and is now pronounced fit for safe operationfor four years more. This is

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