. The Street railway journal . |« i-i-ivA ntFi I nxn ))--. , run nm • l?.\:i|. :ixl) sj III ------ ~* UlL^-g-° ° ° r- ° ■ - :. vision, about 3 miles in length, was published in theStreet Railway Journal of February, 1900. This sec-tion has recently been completed by the opening of a largeswing-draw across the Hackensack River, giving an en-trance to Hackensack. As this bridge is one of thelargest, if not the largest drawbridge in the country, usedexclusively for electric railway service, it is worthy of morethan passing notice. It was built by F. R. Long & Com-pany, contractors, under t

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. The Street railway journal . |« i-i-ivA ntFi I nxn ))--. , run nm • l?.\:i|. :ixl) sj III ------ ~* UlL^-g-° ° ° r- ° ■ - :. vision, about 3 miles in length, was published in theStreet Railway Journal of February, 1900. This sec-tion has recently been completed by the opening of a largeswing-draw across the Hackensack River, giving an en-trance to Hackensack. As this bridge is one of thelargest, if not the largest drawbridge in the country, usedexclusively for electric railway service, it is worthy of morethan passing notice. It was built by F. R. Long & Com-pany, contractors, under the supervision of Ford, Bacon &Davis, consulting engineers of the Railway & Ferry Com-pany. The approaches to the draw are over trestles at each west side trestle is 915 ft. in length, consisting of sixty-one bents of 15 ft. each. The eastern trestle is 285 ft. inlength, and consists of nineteen 15-ft. bents. A standardbent is shown in Fig. 1. The piles, of which there are six

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