. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . phore signals having wooden masts. Whitelights are used at night to denote clear position for all purposes. STATIONS AND BUILDINGS. All of the stations on this line are neat in design and, except for the factthat they were in need of a coat of paint, are in good condition. During thepast season they have had in progress of construction stone foundations un-der several o£ their frame stations, not only with a view to stability and per-manency, but economy in fuel for heating purposes. The standard platformsurrou
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . phore signals having wooden masts. Whitelights are used at night to denote clear position for all purposes. STATIONS AND BUILDINGS. All of the stations on this line are neat in design and, except for the factthat they were in need of a coat of paint, are in good condition. During thepast season they have had in progress of construction stone foundations un-der several o£ their frame stations, not only with a view to stability and per-manency, but economy in fuel for heating purposes. The standard platformsurrounding station buildings in use by this company is made of company is also well provided in this State in the way of sheep pens forfeeding purposes located at Sycamoie and Lindenwood, those at Sycamorehiiving a capacity of 25,000 sheep. RIGHT OF WAY. Their right of way was fairly clean of combustibles and is fenced with barbwire fencing, which is also in fairly good condition. The majority of thewing fences at highway crossings are also constructed of barb wire. The. cuts were all tiled but the ditches were not quite as clean as they might be,which no doubt is owing to the scarcity of labor during the past season, andthe necessity of using tneir labor on other and more important work. CONCLUSION. A great improvement has been made on the roadway of this companj sincethe Commissioners first inspection trip. Almost the entire length of the linehas been reballasted and the work of doing this was still in progress at thetime of the inspection in November. It has also built during the past seasonseveral additional passing tracks and lengthened out the old ones to 3,500feet. Important changes were also in progress in the way of cutting downgrades and in changing some alignment in the west part of the State. Whenthese improvements are completed the ruling grade for east-bound trains willbe feet per mile, and west-bound trains feet per mile, of which thereare not
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