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Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
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
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quired in order lo get below the frost line. The materials com- 776 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vc.i.. XIII, N... 10. prising ilie culverts are all-masonry concrete, good gravel, andPortland cement, mixed \n the proportions of one part packed cement,three parts loose sand and seven parts clean gravel. To care for the surface drainage, wooden box cross culverts 12 in.wide X 12 in. deep were put in across the entire width of the roadbed at frequent intervals wherever necessary. These give gooddrainage into the side ditches. Care was also taken to provide fordraining the water in the side ditches away from the location of the cials. The special work in city slrcits is all of p-in. 95-lb. girderrail of hard center construction furnished by the Lorain Slecl Co.and Wni. Wharton, Jr, & Co. Power. The companys steam plant, which was taken over at the time ofconsolidation and which was put to its final use some time since infeeding direct current into the city system only, has given place to a
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CONCKKTK CATTLK PASSES—ITIC.\ .V- MOIl.WVK VALLEY. roadhcd so that there can be no excessive accumulation of water inthe ditches. .All curves are elevated for a running speed of 65 miles per hour. Where the railway crosses highways at grade, the crossings arethoroughly protected with heavy planking in the manner shown inthe illustrations. At each crossing are placed Climax cattle guards.As required by the Board of Railroad Commissioners, all liighwaycrossings are protected by crossing signs reading Railroad Cross-ing—Stop—Look—Listen. These are metal signs supported on ironposts supplied by the Climax Fence Post Co., of Chicago. Thecrossings are numbered consecutively throu.i;hout the entire length ofthe road, and the number of the crossing is shown in each case on aconspicuous sign. For enabling persons who wish 10 signal ibe car (o stop, signal purely sub-station system. This system now derives its power fromthe generating station at Trenton Falls, some 12 miles north ofUtic

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