. Electric railway review . Garden Prairie and CampEpworth. The Stromberg-Carlson telephone system is used for dis-patching trains. The main switchboard is located in theticket office at Marengo and telephone booths are main-tained at each of the agency stations. Jack-boxes are con-veniently located on poles every 2,000 feet along the lineand as each car is equipped with a portable box telephone,the trainmen can, in case of trouble, quickly get into com- nel is 43 feet long and has a width of 14 feet and a clearheight above the top of the track rails of 20 feet. The sidesof the tunnel spread o
. Electric railway review . Garden Prairie and CampEpworth. The Stromberg-Carlson telephone system is used for dis-patching trains. The main switchboard is located in theticket office at Marengo and telephone booths are main-tained at each of the agency stations. Jack-boxes are con-veniently located on poles every 2,000 feet along the lineand as each car is equipped with a portable box telephone,the trainmen can, in case of trouble, quickly get into com- nel is 43 feet long and has a width of 14 feet and a clearheight above the top of the track rails of 20 feet. The sidesof the tunnel spread out into wing walls at the ends. Thetrolley is supported from mine hangers fastened to the underside of a wooden trough. The telephone lines and trolleyfeeders are carried through the subway on brackets set intothe side walls near the roof, while the high-tension linesare taken over the track and telegraph lines of the railroadcompany. The transmission line wires are mounted on 60- ~/?/GH7orrtHtl/vf ftmarr MmjjK^ jd*-? Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company—Plan of Car House and Yards. munication with the dispatcher. The standard interurbantrain order system, as recommended by the committee of theAmerican Street and Interurban Railway Association, hasbeen adopted. Track and Overhead Construction. The railway is built on private right of way except through the towns. Excessive grades and short radius curves have been avoided. The longest tangent, 7 miles long, is just west of Marengo. There are also many shorter stretches foot poles set 50 feet center to center. Protection is affordedby a guard net placed 25 feet above the railroad overhead equipment furnished by Porter & Bergand the Ohio Brass Company has been used throughout. Thecopper wire was furnished by the American Steel & WireCompany. A bridge over the Kishwaukee river is one of the inter-esting points in the roadbed construction. It is of the ribbedconcrete-steel type, having four arches each S~M>
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