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Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (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.
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FIG. 10.—SECTION OF TRACK OVER OWN RIGHT OF WAY amount of excavating, both earth and rock, has been done.Free use was made of drains, large size terra cotta pipebeing principally employed with masonry headwalls.Walls of masonry were supplied where embankmentsmight prove dangerous at a later day, owing to the ac-tion of the weather. The road crossings over the T rail track were con-structed according to the standard plans of the engineer,and consist of 3-in. oak plank laid on i-in. oak strips be-tween and outside the rails, filled with broken stone and
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FIG. 12.—STANDARD CLOSED CAR finished with a dressing of fine stone and rammed. Thesewere found to be cheaper and more suitable than planksidings. The entire construction has been of the most substan-tial quality, to permit high speeds with a minimum dangerof accident and repair accounts. In order to avoid a grade crossing with the NorthernCentral Railroad tracks, and further in order to span asmall stream and the streets in Mount Washington,a singletrack steel viaduct about 1400 ft. long was constructed.This is one of the most interesting features of the line, andis illustrated in the engravings on page 177. The spans over the Northern Central Railroad consist of two plategirders 68 ft. long x 5 ft. deep, placed 14 ft. between cen-ters and supported by steel towers. A clear headway of22 ft. was required above the top of the steam rails. Theremainder of the viaduct consists of plate girder spansvarying in length between 34 ft. and 40 ft., supported bytowers from 17 ft. to 20 ft. cen

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