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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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to the top of the mountainbeing from twenty-two to twenty-five minutes. Byeither of the old routes it takes from fifty to sixty minutes. There is a large travel to Lookout Mountain during The lower end of the incline is on the minimum grade,gradually increasing to 33.27 per cent at the passingswitch, half waj up; then again decreasing from a pointa short distance above the switch, to 23.17 per cent;then again increasing to 38 per cent, and from this by avertical curve to the ma.ximum of 68 per cent, which iskept for a distance of 450 feet, to within 75 feet of theupper terminus. The last 75 feet is on a grade of 60per cent, and is the grade on which the car stops. The lower half of the incline is laid with two rails,and the upper half with three. At the center four railsare laid, providing a passing switch with a clearancelength of 200 feet. There are no movable switch points,but car No. i is made always to take the south track atthe switch, and car No. 2 the north track, by a special
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I.)D-FI)(1T ClT AND 6/ IER ChM OKAljL. (iKADE OF INCl.INK AT THE CUT. VIEW OF ENTU<E I.SCLINE. certain seasons of the year, nianj- tourists being attractedto the vicinity by the natural beauty of the scenery, andthere are numerous hotels and residences on the plateauof the mountain top. The grading, track laying and trestle building wasdone under the immediate supervision of the presidentand chief promoter of the company. J • T. Cross, who isa railroad contractor of experience. The engineering,both civil and mechanical, was done by the firm of Guild& White, of Chattanooga. The preparation of the plansand construction were under the immediate supervisionof Linn White, of the above tirm, with Ransom Rogersas assistant. Many of the special features introduced inthis work are original with the engineer in charge, andare used for the first time on this road. In its length of 4.972 feet the new incline attains anelevation of 1.450 feet. It is a double cable road, withalignment of t

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