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Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (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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TYPICAL SECTION*FOR 20 FT.CUT TYPICAL SECTIONFOR 22 FT.CUT RETAINING WALLS THROUGH DEPRESSED PORTION OF RIGHT OF WAY BETWEEN ISLAND RAILROAD Ry. Journal CHURCH AVENUE AND LONG Manhattan Beach division of the Long Island Railroad,which will be crossed on a plate girder bridge. Hereto-fore the crossing has been the reverse of this condition.
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VIEW FROM BRIDGE AT NEWKIRK AVENUE FACING THESITE OF A NEW STATION Just east of this crossing a Y leads off the Long IslandRailroad and a double-track system runs parallel to theBrighton Beach line as far as Coney Island, the two linesbeing close together for a short stretch, and then, swing- embankment. The changes on the Long Island system arebeing carried on as a part of the Bay Ridge improvement,which is also under the control of the Brooklyn GradeCrossing Commission. The embank-ment will contain about 1,000,000 cu.yds., the cut above described furnishingabout 230,000 cu. yds. and the remaindercoming from the Bay Ridge improve-ment. The streets intersecting the right ofway are carried over the cut on plategirder bridges, and on the south end un-der the embankment through subwaysspanned by the same type of bridge.The maximum height that any streetwas raised was 7 ft. and the maximumgradient t,.^, per cent. The maximumstreet depression was 4 ft. All bridgeshave solid reinforced conc

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