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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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Easton & Wasiiington Traction Company—Standard Car. tween these points. Another branch, to be built by the samecompany, will cross this line at right angles at Washington,N. J., and will connect Clinton, which is 12 miles south ofWashington, with Belvidere, 11 miles northwest of the samepoint, on the Delaware river. Starting at Clinton, which isthe terminus of a short spur of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Easton & Washington Traction Company—Map of Territory. structed in a manner to avoid grade crossings, and all bridges,culverts, cattle guards, etc., are of concrete, as is also thepower and car house at Port Colden. The track is standard gauge, laid with 80-pound T-rail on6 by 6 inch chestnut ties, 8% feet long, and spaced 2 feet aparton centers. The ballast is gravel. The rails are joined by
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Easton & Washington Traction Company—Port Colden Power Station and Car House. the new line will i)roceed to Highbridge, a junction of theCentral Railroad of New Jersey, thence to Washington, onthe Delaware I.,ackawanna & Western, and from there throughseveral small communities to Belvidere, a junction of thePennsylvania Railroad and the Lehigh & Hudson River Rail-road. The city of Easton. Pa., is the terminus of a network of Weber joints and for electrical pur;)oses by Roebling solderedbonds. Concrete Bridge. The overhead construction of the line is of the brackettype. The brackets supporting the single trolley wire are at-tached to 3.5-foot poles, which carry one crossarm to supporttwo No. 0000 aluminum feeder wires. !76 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVIII, No. 10. An interesting use of concrete in the construction of theroadway may be noted In an accompanying engraving from aphotograph, showing a reinforced girder structure over thetail race of a canal at a point near P

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