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Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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9 ft. below the caps. At the elevation of the bridge decktwo long ties project on each side of the pole, and a crosstimber between these and bolted to them and to the polefixes the position relative to the track. HENDERSONVILLE STATION At Hendersonville, the approximate center of this inter-urban line, the company built a combination passenger andfreight station, shops and substation building. This struc-ture is approximately 95 ft. by 108 ft. 6 in. in plan and isbuilt of a timber frame with metal siding on concrete foun-dations. One corner of the building front is occupied bythe separate waiting rooms for white and colored personsand by the office of the dispatcher and ticket agent. Thesubstation room, 25 ft. x 35 ft. in plan, adjoins these roomson the building front, and a large freight warehouse, 66 ft.x 68 ft. in size, occupies the space back of these. A brickpartition wall between the freight wareroom and the sub-station serves two purposes, that of a fire wall and that of
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l Pipes- p Ti I , Ligbtnius Arrester Ground Electric flj- Journal Nashville-Gallatin Railway—Details of Line Construction —Floor Plan of Substation with teams and the trolley wire fastened in position fromtower wagons. This arrangement permitted the track to belaid and the transmission and telephone lines strung with-out the use of a steam engine and at the same time gavethe transportation department an opportunity to break inits new rolling stock and trainmen. The two most important bridge structures on the entireline are those over the Mansker Creek bottom and the gradeseparation over the Louisville & Nashville Railroad aboutmidway between Nashville and Hendersonville. The for-mer includes a well-built 1500-ft. trestle approach to a100-ft. through truss span on concrete masonry. Thislarge amount of waterway was required because of theproximity of the opening to the Cumberland River, whichduring spring floods backs up into the creek channel. Theviaduct over the Louisville &am

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