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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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right-of-way, not less than 40 ft. wide, which has been purchased out-right at a cost of $75,000. The track is of 70-lb. A. S. C. E. section steel T-rail, with sixhole splice bars at joints. Cedar ties 8 ft. long are laid 2 ft. betweencenters. At each rail joint on tangents are two white oak ties, andon all curves and switches oak instead of cedar ties are used. The road is ballasted from Lima to Delphos with crushed stone,and stone ballast will be used for the entire line. All bridges are built of steel on concrete abutments, there beingfourteen of them between Lima and Ft. Wayne, excluding thosefor steam railroad crossings and of which there are two—at Delphosand Monroeville, respectively. All bridges are designed for a roll-ing load consisting of a train with 20,000 lb. per axle, on a 6 ft. 6 in.wheel base, 26 ft. center to center of trucks, and a dead load ofcSoo lb. per lineal foot, with an impact of 80 per cent. •All culverts between three and twelve feet openings are of the
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.MAP OF Ff. W.WNE, VAN WERT S: LIMA ELECTRIC RY. (Shaded area indicates territory tributary to the line.) Jan. 15, 1905.1 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 29

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