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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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est to the only outlet for the towns along the route of the new ex-tension. The track of the electric line is laid with 70-lb. rails 30-ft.long, fastened together with Weber rail joints. The ties areof chestnut, and the road is well ballasted with gravel. Withthe exception of one grade of 2 per cent, there are no gradesof consequence on the line. The curves are of long radii,and there are very few that will not permit the cars to beoperated around them at full speed. Other than at one placenear the city limits of Terre Haute, no excessive grading April 28, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 663 was encountered. One of the illustrations shows a view these structures, there are on the line, four wooden trestlesof the cut at this point, and the concrete work alongside having a total length of 320 ft. The largest is about onethe track to prevent washing. There were, however, sev-eral places where, in order to cross ravines and waterways,special construction was necessary. At one point a steel
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