Electric railway journal (1919) (14761045292)

Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (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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tion meets, in order to enable membersto attend the meetings of both associations. Among the topics discussed at the meeting was thatof further development of the freight business by useof through tariffs with connecting carriers. As this in-volves the matter of auditing as well as that of opera-tion the discussion will be resumed at the next meetingwith auditing specialists present. Another topic wasthat of automobile truck competition, which was coveredby B. F. Curtis, traffic manager Norton Company,Worcester, who demonstrated that the trucking businesson the basis of freight rates is a losing proposition.Mr. Curtis believes strongly in trolley freight transpor-tation. H. C. Page, general manager Worcester Con-solidated Street Railway, and A. E. Stone, general man-ager Boston & Worcester Street Railway, expressedtheir belief that one of the rays of hope in the futureof the electric railway business is the possibility of ob-taining additional revenues from freight transportation.
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May 3, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 865 Chicago Rehabilitation Track StandardsProve Successful Five Standard Types Adopted in 1907 and 1909 Promise to GiveLong Life and Good Service—Study Made of Rail Corrugationas Influenced by the Several Types of Track Construction—Ninety-two Per Cent of Track Now Standard Construction UPON reference to old track records of 1905 forthe various electric railway lines of the city ofChicago, it will be found that the track founda-tion at that time was the natural soil consisting ofsand and clay and a combination of the two, divided inabout the proportions 28 per cent, 16 per cent and 56per cent respectively. The rail sections were chiefly6-in., 7-in. and 7-j^-in. Johnson Company, with 7-in.trilby, 9-in. Cambria and 9-in. Wharton in a fewlocations. In the paving granite block, asphalt, cobbleand cedar block was used in about the proportions and the ideal seemed to be a permanent foundation uponwhich the superstructure could be placed and renewedfr