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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Decatur to Port-land, where connection will be had with the Muncie & Port-land Traction Companys new line, which was described inthe Electric Railway Review for October. 1906, page 929. of the subgrade. The upper dressing is composed of a sub-stantial gravel which was obtained from the companys ownpit located about midway between the present terminals. Con-crete was used exclusively in the bridge abutment andwaterway construction. There are eight bridges of the deckgirder type and one 155-foot span truss bridge on the line.The latter spans the St. Marys river at a point a short dis-tance from the power plant. Each bridge is of 100 tonscapacity. « The tracks are laid with 70-pound A. S. C. E. sectionsteel rails on standard ties. The rails are joined mechani-cally by standard six-bolt splice bars and electrically by theOhio Brass Companys No. 0000 soldered bonds. Power House.The power house and car barns are situated on a 14%-acre tract of ground, owned by the company, located just
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Ft. Wayne & Springfield Railway—Showing Cars Standing in Front of Power House. The line is operated electrically by single-phase alternat-ing current with a line pressure of 6,600 volts. The overheadwork is of the latest type of catenary construction and theline throughout is well designed. The franchises which thecompany holds run for 50 years. The line is located favor-ably for controlling a healthy freight and passenger traffic.The city of Ft. Wayne, the northern terminus, with its sub-urbs has a population of 61.000 and Decatur has a popula-tion of 5,000. The estimated population adjacent to the rightof way between Ft. Wayne and Decatur is 13,000, making atotal f-stimated population of nearly 80,000 to be served bythe Line. In addition to this, the company is drawing a largepatronage from the four other interurban lines radiatingfrom Ft. Wayne. Track and Roadway. The completed section of the Ft. Wayne & SpringfieldRailway, 21.6 miles long, parallels the old Piqua pike an

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