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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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le space between the river and thehill sides. The Massachusetts Highway Commission does notallow the rails of any electric vnad to be less than 14 ft. 6 in.from the center of the macadam way of the state, so, in orderto fulfil this requirement, it was necessary in many places to widenthe highway on the hill side, as the state would not allow itsroad to be widened on the west side. The necessity of disposingof the excavated material frequently obliged the company to dumpthe waste on the river side of the state road, and in many placesthe result has been the actual widening of the roadway at thosepoints, so that a widening of the macadam would turn the roadinto a boulevard. The rock excavations were often hard in wnrk. on account ofseams, which minimized the effect of dynamite blasts. There werenumerous ledges to be removed, the longest uf which was a quarterof a mile long and from 10 to 15 feet in height. In one case aledge 250 ft. long, 40 ft. high and 30 ft. deep could not be removed
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Co^//v£cr/A/G l/A^ss MAP OF DlSTklCT SERVED BY WESTERN M.\SS.\CHUSETTS STREET RY. 10, iyo4. the company was organized, with these Dtficcrs. J. D.Cadle being made secretary. On Jan. to, 1905, a contract wassigned for the construction of the road by C. W. Blakeslee &Sons, of New Haven, and work was begun at Woronoco, in Marchof this year imder the direction of Mr. A. D. Robinson, the presentgeneral manager of the Western Massachusetts road. The distance of the new line from Park Square, Westfield, toHuntington is 12.5 miles and the running time, 53 minutes. Thenew track begins at Woronoco Park, Westfield, and at this pointthe cars leave the local system in Westfield, which terminates inPark Square. From Woronoco Park to Huntington the line is10.12 miles long. The extension to Lee will give a trackage ofi% miles to the Western Massachusetts company. After leavingthe Woronoco Street Railway Cos. tracks at Woronoco Park theline follows the highway for about half a mile, then passes up

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