. Electric railway journal . March 6, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. * 403 the cities included in its name. Within the present yearit is expected that interests affiliated with the Joliet &Southern Traction Company will electrically equip the Au-rora, De Kalb & Rockford road, 27 miles long, which hasbeen operating a gasoline car service between Aurora andDe Kalb; then through electric interurban service will beoperated from De Kalb by way of Aurora, Joliet and Chi-cago Heights to Hammond, Ind. It is asserted by the management that the Joliet, Plain-field & Aurora division offers a good examp
. Electric railway journal . March 6, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. * 403 the cities included in its name. Within the present yearit is expected that interests affiliated with the Joliet &Southern Traction Company will electrically equip the Au-rora, De Kalb & Rockford road, 27 miles long, which hasbeen operating a gasoline car service between Aurora andDe Kalb; then through electric interurban service will beoperated from De Kalb by way of Aurora, Joliet and Chi-cago Heights to Hammond, Ind. It is asserted by the management that the Joliet, Plain-field & Aurora division offers a good exampde of how anelectric line will benefit its surrounding territory. During. Joliet & Southern—Section of Standard Track Constructionin Paved Streets the four years in which this road has been in operationthe selling price of real estate along the line has increasedfrom $10 to $50 an acre. The merchants in the town ofPlainfield, midway between Aurora and Joliet, state thatbusiness has increased from 50 to 200 per cent. It isknown that rents have largely increased and that the im-petus given the growth of the town has brought about theconstruction of many new houses. CITY TRACK CONSTRUCTION Within the city of Joliet all the street track of theJoliet & Southern company is laid with 80-lb. high T-rails resting on Carnegie steel ties and a foundation of■concrete 12 in. deep. A diagram on this page showsthe details of construction of the double-track structurewith steel ties. For purposes of construction oak ties wereplaced alternately with steel ties. The oak ties served to under construction in tbe very center of the business dis-trict in Joliet. This
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