. The Street railway journal . NCTION New England villages and homesteads. The distance be-tween Concord and Manchester by the line of the road isabout i6£ miles; the present running time is one hour. Ithas often been assumed that a roadbed as substantial asthat used by steam railroads would cost more than anelectric road can afford to pay, but this problem has beensolved by the application of steam railroad methods to the r December 6, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 923 street railway field. Instead of the usual method of dig-ging out the highway, putting down ties and rails andthrowing in th
. The Street railway journal . NCTION New England villages and homesteads. The distance be-tween Concord and Manchester by the line of the road isabout i6£ miles; the present running time is one hour. Ithas often been assumed that a roadbed as substantial asthat used by steam railroads would cost more than anelectric road can afford to pay, but this problem has beensolved by the application of steam railroad methods to the r December 6, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 923 street railway field. Instead of the usual method of dig-ging out the highway, putting down ties and rails andthrowing in the dirt again, the branch line is ballasted ascarefully as if it was intended to be used for standardtrains. The highway was dug out to a depth of 2 ft. or 3 permanent advantage. To a considerable extent gradeshave been avoided. In some places cuts and fills asheavy as those on the average steam railroad line may befound, and in other places the grade of the whole streetwas changed at the railroads expense in order to minimize. Pembroke Scale.•-r2,000 feet to 1 Inch MAP OF CONCORD & MANCHESTER BRANCH ft., as the nature of the grade demanded, and the wornoutroad material was replaced with clean gravel. This wouldhave been altogether too expensive an undertaking if theusual street railway methods had been employed, butFrank A. Merrill, the assistant chief engineer of the com-pany, laid the roadbed at about one-third the usual ex-pense by the employment of a regular construction train, the wear and tear. The town authorities co-operated insome instances by changing the street lines so that sharpcurves would be avoided, and in one case the road wasmade perfectly straight in this way for a distance of some-thing over a mile. On such curves as could not be elimi-nated the outer rail has been elevated as in steam-railroadpractice.
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