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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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i is 36miles in lengtli, practically parallels the Mississippi Valley for tlieentire distance between its terminals and for a nnniber of milesrnns close to the Mississippi River, whose nnmcrons wooded islandsand winding banks make the trip over the new intenirban full ofinterest and offer at freqnent intervals many charming rustic \fiews. Starlinp; at Clinton the cars of this company operate arouitrl aliicip upon tlic tracks of the Slate Electric Co. for a distance of grade 1,200 ft. long on the approach lo a viaduct over the Chicago &Northwestern railway at Comanche. The sharpest curve is one ofthree degrees. The cuts along the line are rather light, the heaviest one heiiigknr)wn as Iinneo cut in Princeton, is alwut 25 ft. deep. Si.\lythousand yards of earth were removed from this cut and usedin making an approach of one per cent grade. There arc twoiS-ft. rock cuts on either side of Budd Cretk near Princeton, whosecombined length is 1,000 ft. The only other cat along the line is
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INTERIOR OK POWER HOLSE, IOWA & ILLINOIS RAILWAY CO. tine mile. From the loop in Clinton the company operates overits own private right of way for a distance of 33 miles to the cityof Davenport, where it operates over a loop on the tracks of theTri-city Railway Co. for a distance of two miles. The population of Clinton is 27,000 and of Davenport, 40,000,while Rock Island and Moline have together about 50.000. Onthe route are the small towns of Princeton, LeClaire and PleasantValley. The rural population in the territory tributary to the lineis an important item but the greater portion of the traffic is expectedto be through business and accordingly the line has been designedwith an especial view to high speed operation. The grades do notexceed one per cent except at one point where there is a two per cent one at a station called Tile Works where there is a short 25-ft. cuLThere are several long fills upon this road and considerable trestlework, which is being filled in as rapidly

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