. The Street railway journal . entire population having been carried about 145 timeslast year. New Orleans Traction Company, controls the largest mileage, embracing 120 miles of track,and operates the Crescent City Railway Company andthe New Orleans City & Lake Railroad, together with thenew lines built under the Judah Hart franchises, butwhich have not yet been operated. H. M. Littell is the resident manager of the TractionCompany and is president of both the other H. Ford is secretary and treasurer, and B. B. Gilman,superintendent. Mr. Littell is well known to the streetrailway
. The Street railway journal . entire population having been carried about 145 timeslast year. New Orleans Traction Company, controls the largest mileage, embracing 120 miles of track,and operates the Crescent City Railway Company andthe New Orleans City & Lake Railroad, together with thenew lines built under the Judah Hart franchises, butwhich have not yet been operated. H. M. Littell is the resident manager of the TractionCompany and is president of both the other H. Ford is secretary and treasurer, and B. B. Gilman,superintendent. Mr. Littell is well known to the streetrailway fraternity, having formerly been general managerof the Cincinnati Inclined Plane Railroad, and last year amember of the Executive Committee of the American April, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 247 Street Railway Association. Mr. Ford and Mr. Gilmanare from Louisville, the latter having for many years beenconnected with the street railway lines of Louisville, rfew construction is being done under the supervision. FIG. 13.—TOWERS ERECTED FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING-NEW ORLEANS. of G. A. Hopkins, chief engineer of the company, and , electrician. The work of equipping the lines for electric tractionis already advanced. The Judah Hart lines have beenfinished and the work onPrytania and Canal Streets iswell under way. In the trackconstruction very heavy railsare employed, and the founda-tions are being prepared in thebest manner suggested by localconditions. Three types of railsare employed. On the neutralground which embraces about25 per cent, of the mileage, asixty pound T rail is used, andon about 55 percent, of the re-maining mileage a side bearing,eight and nine-sixteenths inchdeep, Johnson girder rail isemployed, and on the remain-ing 20 per cent, a center bear-ing rail of the same type, theweight ranging from 93 to 100lbs. per yard. The joints areunited by deep, twelve bolt fishplates, the bolts being one inchin diameter. The character ofthe soil and other con
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