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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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dedthrough the bases of the ccilumns. The south wall was pierced atintervals of about s ft. and strong needle girders fixed through thewall, one end resting on the solid stone on the outside, and the WASHOUTS IN THE MIAMI VALLEY. The six views here shown were taken after the flood on March2,), 1898, which was one of the most disastrous known in the MiamiValley and doing great damage to railroad and electric railwayI)roperty. It represents one of the obstacles with which many in-lerurbans have to contend. On account of these washouts the Cin-cinnati & Miami Valley Traction Company which owns .37 milesof track had to suspen<l operation for three days between Miamis-burg and Hamilton and one day between Daylon and Miamisburg.There was also great damage between Miildlelown and Trentonand more than a mile of the roadbed between Overpeck and Ham-ilton was destroyed. It cost a large sum to put the roadbed inshape again and it was six weeks before the trestle was pulled backinto place.
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RESULT OF A FLOOD OF THE MIAMI RIVER. other tied down to one of the main girders supporting the columns.For the wall on the north side the same method could not beadopted, as the work could not be executed from the street. Onemain girder was therefore designed to carry the whole weight.Needle girders were fixed just below the church floor level, undercover of which the wall was cut away to allow of the girder beingfixed. After the wall had been securely pinned up above the gir-der, suspended needles were put in one at a time, and the interven-ing masonry held up by cross steel joints placed on the top of theneedles. Grouting under air pressure has been largely employedin the work, especially for filling up between the girders and theold masonry. The power station which is located near one terminus has been inoperation for eight or nine years and the machinery is of obsoletedesign, Siemens bi-polar dynamos being belt driven from Willansengines. The illustration shows the junction of th

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