. The street railway review . an iron bridge, built in 1893, by theCroton Bridge and Manufacturing Company. Theravine is is 40 or 50 feet deep, and about 125 feet bridge, 35 feet high from the tops of the foundationpiers, is about 140 feet long. It has five openings, thecentral one being spanned by a Warren truss, 61 feetlong and 10 feet deep. The other spans are each 20 feetlong and are formed of 15-inch ■ I beams. The bridge. 0^ 8 in the heart of the town. Two of the lines occupy thelevel portions of the town, one running westward alongState street to the stations of the Lehigh Vall
. The street railway review . an iron bridge, built in 1893, by theCroton Bridge and Manufacturing Company. Theravine is is 40 or 50 feet deep, and about 125 feet bridge, 35 feet high from the tops of the foundationpiers, is about 140 feet long. It has five openings, thecentral one being spanned by a Warren truss, 61 feetlong and 10 feet deep. The other spans are each 20 feetlong and are formed of 15-inch ■ I beams. The bridge. 0^ 8 in the heart of the town. Two of the lines occupy thelevel portions of the town, one running westward alongState street to the stations of the Lehigh Valley and theDelaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroads, and theother northward to the steamboat landing, with a recentlyconstructed branch to a pleasure resort on the lake third line, running eastward, climbs East Hill viaStale and Eddy streets, to the station of the Elmira, Cort-land & Northern Railroad. A short branch from thisline crosses the Cascadilla Ravine and enters the collegecampus, but only for a very short distance, as its presencemight interfere with the electrical work carried on in someof the college buildings. The profile shows the line be-tween the Lehigh Valley Railroad station and the several hundred feet on the hill, the grade is between9 and per cent. The accompanying photographwas made from the car while running down the percent grade. At first, both the up and the down
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