Identifier: streetrailwayjo151899newy (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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tot*** STANDARD TRACK CONSTRUCTION FOR INTERURBAN LINES hours per month, and 50 per cent discount above that fig-ure. Current for electric motors is charged for at the rateof io cents per thousand watt hours, subject to discountsranging from 5 per cent for use of 100,000 to 200,000 watthours per month to 50 per cent for use of 1,000,000 watthours per month. Minimum charges are, of course, pro-vided for by special schedule. ROADBED The traffic earning power of a combined urban and in-terurban system of this kind is largely dependent on speedof transit in competition with other transportation agen-
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T RAIL TRACK CONSTRUCTION ON GRAND AVENUE cies, and high car speeds are possible only when track androadbed are in first-class condition, and the lines are rea-sonably straight. These facts have been fully appreciatedby the present management, and the work of straighten-ing the interurban lines and improving the roadbed hasbeen steadily going on for the past two years, and largesums of money have been expended in securing privaterights of way to cut off curves, reduce distances between . + to « HHKHH-TT L U L STANDARD TRACK CONSTRUCTION AS APPLIED TO ASPHALT PAVING being put under the ties, the whole forming a solid, massiveconstruction, difficult to improve upon. The standard city roadbed construction is shown on thispage, and an illustration is also given of the new work nowgoing on in Grand Avenue. The company is fortunatein being able to use T rail in both city and interurbanwork, the Milwaukee pavements being such that this canbe done without difficulty. The standard rail for ci

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