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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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orksas before. When the Piedmont Cable Road was built it , wasgiven a bonus of $60,000, of which $15,000 was in land.The value of property all along the line has more thandoubled since the road was built, while prior to that timelots could not be given away. 262 THE SIOUX CITY ELEVATED RAILWAY. THIS line was built by the Sioux City Rapid TransitCompany to carry their surface motor line trainsinto the business center of the city, and is aboutI iX miles long, double track standard gauge. The line crosses over nearly all the railways enteringthe city and several switching yards, and the desire to 40 feet long. The clear height required over street is 16feet and over railway tracks 22 feet. The post founda-tions consist of four piles, average length 26 feet, betweenthe heads of which a 12x12 inch oak anchor blockis titted; the anchor bolts set and a concrete base 434 feetsquare at the bottom and 7 feet high built around them, andsurmounted by a cast cap 3 feet square filled with concrete.
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Jones street station from the street. avoid the danger and de\i\y at these crossings was thedeciding factor in favor of an elevated line. The structure is calculated to carry a rolling load of1,500 pounds per lineal foot per track, but provision has The posts are built of Zs, with web plate, and sideplates to strengthen against the bending due to windstresses, the cross girders are 58 inches deep andare built into the posts. The main girders are in two

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