Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
type. The longest bridgestructure is a pile trestle across the filter of the .American Straw-board plant at Noblesville. There being a state statute prohibit-ing the Strawboard company from turning the waste water fromits plant directly into the river, this waste is delivered to a largepond, and after purification by settling, escapes to the river through Dec 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 947 a sluiceway. The length of the pile trestle across the pond andadjacent low ground is 2.S10 ft.; the spans are 16 ft. each. All bridges were designed according to Coopers 1901 specitica-tions for electric railways. The dead load to consist of the weightof the structure itself. The live load is assumed to consist of is added. A variation of 150° F. in tcnipciaturc is presumed. Oncurves the centrifugal force of cars is assumed to act 5 ft. above thebase of the rail and is taken as live load, the speed being taken at, 50 miles per hour. Eflcct of braking cars on bridges is also pro-viiled for.
Text Appearing After Image:
ONK OF TIIK TWO BRIDGES .\( ROSS THE \V.\B,\SH RIVER .\T LOC.\NSPORT. wheels carrying 25,000 lb. each spaced at intervals of 6 ft., 14 ft.,6 ft., 19 ft., 6 ft., 14 ft., 6 ft., 19 ft., 6 ft., etc., and 100 lb. per sq. ft.for the rest of the floor. Wind stresses and vibration are provided for by proportioningthe top lateral bracing in deck bridges and the lower lateral brac-ing in through bridges to resist a lateral force of 300 lb. per ft. of Track. The track is laid with rails of 80-lb. A. S. C. £.■ and 72-lb. 6-in.-Shanghai sections. The joints are the Continuous, and the spe-cial work was furnished by the Paige Iron Works. At each rail joint is one 250,000-c. m., Type F-3, lo-in. protectedM.aycr & Engluud rail bond. At all crossings and around special

Note About Images