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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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c-tion in Detroit now being laid by Mr. Ker-win is that there are no combination angle-bar joints joining different sections of rail.At special work, at crossings and at allother places where transition is made fromone section of rail to another, cast-weldedjoints are put in so that angle-bars are usedonly between rails of the same cross sec-tion. Special work all has a short piece ofthe standard grooved section of rail castwelded to each rail for connection with theregular grooved rail. Grooved rails which are worn out on citylines so that the flanges of the wheels ride in the railgrooves are taken out and laid on suburban and interurbantrack with the grooves on the outside. On Woodward Avenue, in the business part of the city, in cross section until the flanges of the car wheels begin totouch the bottom of the groove. It will be remembered by some that the first track con-struction to be laid without ties on concrete stringers wasthat in Detroit. This was in 1804 and l%95- Two kinds
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