Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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thickness of from 25 cm to 30 cm, and a width of 2 m. Inthe cities, where paving is required, the rails are laid on asub-base of concrete. Within the cities and towns girder rails are used. Theserails have a weight of 30.46 kg per meter, a height of 115mm, a base of 88 mm, and a groove of 30 mm in depth.The rails are rolled in 12-m lengths. The ties, which are radius of 40 m. There are only two switches required onthe T-rail section, and these have an initial curve radiusof 50 m. In Bremgarten a waiting station has been erected, whichincludes not only rooms for passengers, but also the officebuilding, residence and restaurant, together with a freightstation. Adjoining this office building is the car housefor four motor cars with the repair shops. At severalstations along the line of route attractive waiting stationshave been erected, combining a freight station, waitingroom for passengers, office and residential rooms for thestation master. There is also a small car house in Dietikon.
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EXAMPLES OF OVERHEAD AND ROADBED CONSTRUCTION, THE POWER PLANT AND PASSENGER STATIONS of iron, are 1.50 m long, weigh 25 kg each, and are spacedeleven to the rail length in straight track and thirteen tothe rail length on curves. The weight per running meterof track, angle-plates, ties, bolts, etc., is 88 kg. The Vignole or T-rail used on the companys right ofway have a weight of 24.2 kg per meter, a height of 110mm, a base of 90 mm, and a web of 9 mm thick. These rails,which are also 12 m in length, are laid on ties which arespaced fourteen to a rail length in straight track and fif-teen to a rail length on curves. The ties are of the samelength as with the girder rails, but weigh 5 kg less apiece.The total weight of this track, with angle-plates, etc., is 75kg per meter. There are eleven switches required on thesectiun laid with girder rails. The curves have an initial Power is derived from the lighting station in Brem-garten, for which purpose two generators have been in-stalled. T

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