Electric railway journal (1918) (14758849024)
Zusammenfassung
Identifier: electricrailway511918newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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608 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 13
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1. Uncertain right-of-way on which new track had to be placed 2. Sand for filling hauled in side-dump cars. 3. (a-b) Shoveling and washing sand into holes. 4. Rolling the filled-in right-of-way. 5. Pouring between outside forms with curbing forms ready to use. 6. New eastbound track completed. 7. Inside forms in place as curbing is poured. 8. Forms removed and layer of screenings going in. 9. Placing the ties and removing paving from old track. Photographic Description of Chicago Track Construction Methods March 30, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 609 Track Construction Methods Employed in Great Street Widening Plan Increasing Width of Twelfth Street Necessitated Complete Rebuilding of DoubleTrack of Chicago Surface Lines—New Type of Sub-Grade Construction—ManyLabor Saving Devices Employed to Keep Ahead of the Paving Contractor TAKING up two well-laid tracks set in concreteconstruction, moving them more than 20 ft., andplacing one of them along what was formerly thefront end of a st