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Identifier: streetrailwayjo251905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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VIEW ILLUSTRATING TYPICAL USE OF DOUBLE-TRACK CON-STRUCTION ON CURVES, TO AVOID POSSIBILITY OF COL-LISIONS, CARS TAKING RIGHT-HAND TRACK OVERHEAD CROSSING OF THE WABASH AND MICHIGAN CEN-TRAL RAILROADS NEAR DETROIT, SHOWING USE OFCONCRETE ABUTMENTS near the corner of Superior and Adams Streets (describedOct. 25, 1902, page 704) is made use of as the terminal; in bothcities these stations are convenient to the retail shopping dis-tricts and to all local city cars. The construction work upon the extension corresponds ingeneral to that upon the older portion of the road, as illustratedin the above-mentioned article descriptive of the Toledo &Monroe section. The advantage of a somewhat wider right
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DOUBLE-TRACK LINE CONSTRUCTION AS USED AT ALL TURN-OUTSTO PERMIT CARS PASSING AT SPEED of way, however, is to be had on the extension, which followsa minimum of 66 ft. throughout ; this will permit of double-tracking with the least possible trouble. In fact, the purposeof the general method of construction adopted is to provide fordouble-tracking without rearranging tracks or poles. As maybe noted from views along the line, the present track is locatedtoward one side of the center of the right of way, the side- ing points the turn-outs are being made of unusual length,1 mile or over, so that a direct approach is being made to dou-ble-track conditions. As in the case of the Toledo & Monroe section, the roadbedis of the very best order, involving a construction that rivalsthe latest and most approved steam road practice. A 70-lb.standard A. S. C. E. section T-rail is used, while the ties areof cedar and oak, spaced 24 ins. between centers. The trackis very heavily ballasted with bro

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