Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (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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CROSS SECTION AND ELEV.-NTION IF ELEV.\TED STRLXTLRE. by -5.^ in. thick and four angles 6 x 3A x A in. in size. The lowerchord is formed of two 6 x 6 x A-m. angles and two cover plates14 X 5^ in. The vertical and diagonal members are angle sectionsriveted to -^^-in. gussets which are in turn riveted to the upper andlower members of the girder. drip angles, are riveted onto the lower side of the troughs, so thatany leakage which may occur at these junctions will fall off the struc-ture from the drip angles and not run along under the steel work.E.xpansion joints are provided in the longitudinal steel work of thestructure at points from 150 to 200 ft. apart. At expansion joints Skii. 15. l>S\ SlKI.l.r KAII.WAY RliVIEW 525 ill tlic sIriKluic slicl il^iiii, •.iiiMi!! Ilic ciiiicrclc, lliis concrete bciiiBaiiehorcd to the vertical surface. Tlie stcc! deck siippurls a floor of c-oncrel., rrinforci-rl willi sicilfabric. Ilie upper surface of this concrete has a granolithic sur-face and

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