Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer (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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—The First New Track so Laid. BY RICHARD MC ClLUOCII, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, CASS AVENUE &FAIR GROUNDS ELECTRIC RAILWAY, ST. LOUIS. To build a track which would obviate the ceaselesstrouble with joints and to perpetually insure a smoothand easy riding roadbed, was the object of the manage-ment of the Baden & St. Louis Railroad when, last track with hot riveted rail joints. All of these trialsgave satisfactory results. Last year, the Johnson Com-pany, having procured a suitable electric welder from theThomson Electric Welding Company, several miles oftrack were welded on the West End road, of Boston.There was some trouble from rails breaking near thewelds, but the Johnson Company persevered with itsexperiments and entered the field this year prepared toguarantee its work. Street railways have .shown a greatwillingness to try welded track and this season willbe one of great activity along this line. The road underconsideration is the first to begin welding operations thisseason.
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THE WELDING CAR. February, it closed a contract with the Johnson Companyto weld together the rail ends of its reconstructed road.In the past few years there have been several experi-ments with continuous track, and all tend to show thatthe difficulties which would be supposed to arise fromcontraction and expansion can be neglected. The mostscientific and thorough experiment along this line wasmade by A. J. Moxham, president of the Johnson Com-pany, early in 1892, and reported to the American StreetRailway Association, at Cleveland, in that year. In thiscase the rails were so bolted together as to be practicallycontinuous. Previous to this Philip Noonan laid sometrack with hot riveted rail joints, on the Lynchburg &Durham Railroad, near Gladys, Va. Some time ago C.W. Wason, of the Cleveland Electric Railway, laid some The Baden & St. Louis Railroad is one of the oldeststreet railways in St. Louis, its charter having beengranted in 1870. It runs between the north end of theBroad

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