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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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rOURlNC, JOINT utes after pouring, if necessary, as when welding while the cars arerunning.) Two or three taps of a hammer will separate the slagfrom the joint and the work is completed, no chipping or grindinglu-ing necessary except when welding old rails w-here the joints arel)attered, wdien of course the rails have to be ground down to aneven surface. In case the two rails do not come together closely. a shim of steel may be inserted and welded in, completely filling thegap. (The writer has made many joints in tliis manner with per-fect success.) Four men constitute a welding gang, and i8 or 20 joints can bemade in a day of ten hours. No skilled labor is necessary. ihe first place to experiment with this process was Essen, Gcr-n\any, the home of the inventor. Owing to the importance of the
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JOINT ON v-IN- R-MI- BEI-ORE RE.MOVING SI.Ar. rail joint question, however, other European cities were not slow ininvestigating its merits. In 1900 about 1,200 joints were made invarious cities on the continent. The results obtained from thesewere considered so satisfactory that the use of this method of weld-ing increased very rapidly, some cities introducing it on an exten-sive scale, notably Leeds, England; Dresden, Austria, and Singapore,India. Twenty-six hundred joints were made in 1902, and 20,000 in1903. In 1904 a company was formed in the United States to intro-duce the process here, and at the suggestion of the writer, who hadfollowed the development of the process with considerable interest,the Holyoke Street Railway Co. decided to use it on a mile of trackabout to be reconstructed. WORK DONE AT HOLYOKE. The rail welded was new 9-in. 107-lb. grooved Sec. P. S. Co. 228,known as Trilby section, the rails averaging about 55 ft. in length.The total number of joints made was 170.

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