. The street railway review . tracks, passes outs. Span construction is used for the overhead w-ork, a doubletrolley wire No. 000 grooved section will be erected over the wholeline. About 12 miles of the road is already graded and at pointsit has been found necessary to do considerable cutting in rock. Themaximum cut was 15 ft. in depth and 800 ft. long. About 400,000yards of material will be handled in grading the 28 miles of road. An interesting feature of this work is the changing of the courseof the Pecatonica River in two places. In one of these places theriver has a U-shaped channel, the
. The street railway review . tracks, passes outs. Span construction is used for the overhead w-ork, a doubletrolley wire No. 000 grooved section will be erected over the wholeline. About 12 miles of the road is already graded and at pointsit has been found necessary to do considerable cutting in rock. Themaximum cut was 15 ft. in depth and 800 ft. long. About 400,000yards of material will be handled in grading the 28 miles of road. An interesting feature of this work is the changing of the courseof the Pecatonica River in two places. In one of these places theriver has a U-shaped channel, the bend washing the edge of the Chi •cago & Northwestern right of way. This bend in the river Rockford & Freeport right of way twice and in order to doaway with the construction of two trestles it was decided to diga new bed for the river, cutting out the curve and filling in the oldriver bed where it crossed the companys right of way. The newchannel to be dug at this point is 1,250 ft. in length. Nearly a. ili.\ , ll.\ IAKK. KOtKlDKIl. through Ridolt to a point cast of Ereeiiort; here the line curvesinto Taylor Ave. opposite the Fair Grounds where it connects withthe Icx-al street railway line over whose tracks it runs to the Ste-phen«>n St. terminal. The total length of the line is 28 miles, all ofwhich is .single track with turnouts. The line is Iwing very subtiantially built with the idea of attaining high speed and with aview >f handling carload freight. Its maximum curvature is 6° andthe maximum grade is 2 per cent for 2,000 ft. The track is laidwith o-lb. I-rail of A. S. C. E. standard section on cedar tiesspaced 2 ft. lictwccn centers. The joints were furnished by \h~Weber Railway Joint Manufacturing Co. There arc ten turnouts in addition to the terminals and sema-phores nia<lo by the Page Iron Works arc to be installed at all turn- similar condition exists at another point along the line and at thisplace a new channel about 600
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