. The street railway review . e no possibility of a headend collision between cars, whichmight meet at this point, and also to provide for a possible doubletracking of the entire system, which may be necessary within thenext few years. The entire line of right of way is almost level, the steepest gradebeing per cent and the grades but few in number. There are nocuts of any kind on the entire roadbed, the greater part being builtup as embankment, and to a height closely following that of thesteam railroads, which it parallels at a distance of 65 ft. center tocenter. The track is laid with 7
. The street railway review . e no possibility of a headend collision between cars, whichmight meet at this point, and also to provide for a possible doubletracking of the entire system, which may be necessary within thenext few years. The entire line of right of way is almost level, the steepest gradebeing per cent and the grades but few in number. There are nocuts of any kind on the entire roadbed, the greater part being builtup as embankment, and to a height closely following that of thesteam railroads, which it parallels at a distance of 65 ft. center tocenter. The track is laid with 70-lb. rails of A. S. C. E. section in62-ft. lengths, using six-bolt angle bar jcints. The rails arc bondedwith No. 0000 Crown bonds, of which there are three per jointon the south end, decreasing to one per joint on the north end, asthe distance from the power house increases. The tics are Michi-gan cedar. 6x8 in. x 8 ft. and the track is ballasted with gravel onefoot deep from the top of the ties. In constructing the roadbed. PLAN OF RAILROAl) CROSSINCi. especial care has been taken to make the grades so that while theyare extremely roadbed is elevated enough to keep it up abovesnow and water at all points. The construction approximates,as nearly as possible, to the best railroad standards, and the onlyright angle curves on the system are at the point where the electricrailroad leaves the steam railroad right of way to join the systemof the Winnebago Traction Co. at Electric Park and at the the subway north for nine miles the line is almost absolutelystraight, except for an offset of 50 ft. at Van Dyne, to avoid thestation grounds at that point. The right of way passes through sev-eral tracts of timber, which have been cleared the full width of 50ft. in order that trainmen may see the approaching cars at a long dis-tance, and so as to lessen the danger of accidents at highway cross-ings. The right of way is fenced in with a substanlial woven wiref
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