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Identifier: electricrailway411913newy (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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o the left and parallel to the Chicago &Eastern Illinois railroad track, the cars on it appearingabove the water. At the time this picture was taken awooden trestle several hundred feet long was submerged anda terrific current from the right passed over the Chicago& Eastern Illinois tracks and carried the stringers, ties andrails from the interurban trestle a considerable distancedownstream. The reason that the steam railroad trestle wasnot carried away was that the piers were incased in con-crete for quite a depth into the earth. The depth of wateris indicated by the top of the telegraph pole which appearsjust above the driftwood at the left of the cars. Further north from this point the rails, still fastened tothe ties, were twisted into a complete spiral and washed offfrom the right-of-way. Another illustration shows a viewof the overturned tracks and trolley poles in this localityafter the water had partially receded. To avoid lengthy delay in traffic while waiting for the
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The Recent Floods—High Water at Lafayette, Ind., and Remains of Wild-Cat Trestle on the Fort Wayne & North-ern Indiana Traction Companys Lines the trucks, chained gears connecting the motors with theaxles. The Ohio Traction Company, which operates the MillCreek Valley lines, has in no way been injured or reachedby the flood except at its extreme northern end in Ham-ilton, Ohio. From Glendale to Hamilton this line was util-ized exclusively in the transportation of food and sup-plies to Hamilton, which was badly damaged by the flood.This line was the only means of access to the city for aperiod of almost a week, and as many as eighteen andtwenty carloads of foodstuffs and supplies were transportedby it daily during that time, the supplies being shipped bythe Mayors citizens relief committee. The Ohio TractionCompany should not be confounded with the Ohio ElectricRailway Company, which also operates an interurban line,of which a part extends between Hamilton and Cincinnati.. The Co

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