. The street railway review . d at this point, afid alreadypreparations have been made to run a line of steamers from Inronto to Olcott to connect with the electric cars to Buffalo. Iower for the line from Lockport to Olcott is furnislicd parllyfrom the converter station at Lockport, the current for whichcomes from Niagara Falls, and partly from a power house (l oi>. Ihe line of the road, about a mile and a half from its The overhead work is supported on poles 8,S ft. apart,intermediate suspension I)eing used lor the No. 0000 figure S trol-ley wire. Four miles of th
. The street railway review . d at this point, afid alreadypreparations have been made to run a line of steamers from Inronto to Olcott to connect with the electric cars to Buffalo. Iower for the line from Lockport to Olcott is furnislicd parllyfrom the converter station at Lockport, the current for whichcomes from Niagara Falls, and partly from a power house (l oi>. Ihe line of the road, about a mile and a half from its The overhead work is supported on poles 8,S ft. apart,intermediate suspension I)eing used lor the No. 0000 figure S trol-ley wire. Four miles of the Lockport & Olcott road were constructedentirely for freight purposes, and form the connection by whichthe Buffalo & Lockport Ry. reaches the lower town or mill dis-trict of Lockport. Lockport is built upon what is known as theNiagara escarpment, a well defined and sharp declivity runninggenerally parallel to the southern shore of Lake Ontario, and fromfour to twelve miles distant from it. The difference in the upper. RETAINING WALL AT OLCOTT. and lower level of this escarpment is from 200 to 300 ft. Severalsurveys had been made by various steam roads with the idea ofreaching the mill district of Lockport from the upper level, butwith the exception of the switch-back put in by the New YorkCentral, no road had been constructed as a result of them. Themain passenger line of the Lockport & Olcott Ry. made the de-scent through one of the city streets, using a maximum grade of8 per cent. In order to give an operative line for the freightthe road was designed to carry, a detour of four miles, as alreadystated, was made about the city, enabling the mill district to bereached with a i^ per cent grade. The construction of these fourmiles involved a larger outlay in the roadbed than did the entireij miles from Lockport to Olcott. Three miles of the workw-ould have been considered heavy for steam road construction,and at one point a cut of 80 ft. was made. K considerable portionof this s
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