Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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11 In a far shorter time on the unyielding concrete foundation than il •! n the less rigid tie construction (For additional lata in this regard set Mipaper referred Pursuing the plan of thoroughly welding inl 1 connected sys tern the various properties controlled by the Transit company, in-clines have been built at various points connecting the elevatedroads with the surface hacks am) elevated trains are now run In1 onej Island ami other outlying points. For this purpose many ofthe electrically equipped trains arc provided with overhead trolleyfoi operation on the surface tracks as well as with contact shoesfor the third rail on the elevated I I lasl > • nnection of this kindto he hmlt is at Cypress Hill,, where the Brooklyn Union Bit joined with the surface tracks on Jamaica Vve bj meansof an incline aboul 1,200 ft. long. I In layout at Cypress Hills isillustrated on this page The grade i~ gradual, not exceeding 2 i 1 lit About one-half of the incline is masonry work, consist-
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PLAN AND SECTION OK INCLINE IN BROOKLYN. sideration the enormous car mileage of the Brooklyn Rapid TransitCo. the track as a whole is in exceptionally good condition, farbettei Mi.111 would he supposed after a superficial examination oftin volume f traffic passing over some of the lilies during therush hours. Bul little will have to he done in the way of repairto the track laid subsequent to the tune at which the Transit com-pany took control except on the Brooklyn Bridge and at the bridgeterminals and most of the work will he confined to the older linesami to extensions and additions. The standard construction in Brooklyn where the pavement is granite block te is a o-in. girder rail on ties 6x8 in. x 7 ft. laid with sand foundation tamped into place. Weber joints are used with brace tie plates every third tie. After the rails arc down, surfaced ami lined, portland cement concrete is rammed in between the ties and around the ends of ties, forming a solid bed of o in. above the subgrad

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