. The Street railway journal . CK With the exception of short distances, where the line passesthrough intervening towns, the entire miles of interurbanroad between Fort Worth and Oak Cliff is on its own right ofway. This right of way in general is 66 ft. wide, and it hasbeen so obtained that but few sharp curves or heavy gradeswere necessary, and the stretches of straight track could bemade especially long, the majority of the tangents being fromT mile to 4 miles in length. Outside of the tracks in the terminalcities the curves are 4 degs. or less, with the exception of anundergrade cross
. The Street railway journal . CK With the exception of short distances, where the line passesthrough intervening towns, the entire miles of interurbanroad between Fort Worth and Oak Cliff is on its own right ofway. This right of way in general is 66 ft. wide, and it hasbeen so obtained that but few sharp curves or heavy gradeswere necessary, and the stretches of straight track could bemade especially long, the majority of the tangents being fromT mile to 4 miles in length. Outside of the tracks in the terminalcities the curves are 4 degs. or less, with the exception of anundergrade crossing of the line of the Texas & Pacific atHandley, which required curves of considerable less radii at theapproaches. In Dallas the interurban road crosses the mainlines of two steam railroads at grade, but as the tracks of thesetwo roads adjoin at this point it is practically a single gradecrossing. This is the only grade crossing on the road with theexception of three crossings of steam railroad branch lines The average grade is less than 1 per cent. At the entranceto Fort Worth there is a maximum grade of per cent forabout 700 ft. The excavations and fills by which this result wasobtained necessitated considerable work on many portions ofthe line, as shown by the views of certain sections reproducedin the illustrations. The roadbed is 16 ft. wide on embank-ments, with slopes of V/2 :i, and in cuts is 20 ft. wide, withslopes of 1:1, except, of course, in rock cuts. There are threesteel bridges on the line, one spanning Trinity River, one atSycamore Creek, and one at Mountain Creek; the latter twobeing constructed by the King Bridge Company, of Cleveland,Ohio. At other streams pile trestles are employed. Smallerwater courses have stone or concrete culverts or extra heavysewer pipe. The rail is 70-llx-T, A. S. C. E. section, 30-ft. lengths, andis jointed by standard six-bolt splice bars. The ties are sawedSouthern pine, 6 ins. x 8 ins. x 8 ft., except where sp
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