. The Street railway journal . ;.\ I KKIXi; SIIAWXKE FROM THE EAST, SHOWING THE IXDERGRADE CROSSING River near Shawnee two trestles, aggregating 500 ft. inlength, were erected, but other than these no large structureswere required. Steam road crossings occur at four are at grade crossings on branch lines, while two neareach other in Shawnee are under-grade crossings. At thispoint, fortunately, the steam roads were carried across aravine on a trestle, so that no depression of the electric linewas necessary. Xn licavy cuts were required in the con- at the bottom the cuts are 20 ft. in
. The Street railway journal . ;.\ I KKIXi; SIIAWXKE FROM THE EAST, SHOWING THE IXDERGRADE CROSSING River near Shawnee two trestles, aggregating 500 ft. inlength, were erected, but other than these no large structureswere required. Steam road crossings occur at four are at grade crossings on branch lines, while two neareach other in Shawnee are under-grade crossings. At thispoint, fortunately, the steam roads were carried across aravine on a trestle, so that no depression of the electric linewas necessary. Xn licavy cuts were required in the con- at the bottom the cuts are 20 ft. in width. One of the viewsshows some of the ditches dug behind the cuts to pro-tect them from surface water. The company has now underconsideration the building of an extension to connect theShawnee lines with the Oklahoma City lines, a distance of40 miles. POWER SUPPLY Power is rented on a meter basis from the Shawnee Light-. A STREET SCENE IN SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA struction of the line, but there is one short i8-ft. fill and asand fill 6 ft. high and i mile long just south of the Can-adian River. With the exception of about 400 yds. of trackin Tecumseh laid with high T 7-in. rails, the interurbanline was constructed of 70-lb. standard section rails in Sidings with 300 ft. of straight track, and locatedat intervals of about i mile, are equipped with Elliott frogsand switch stand of steam railroad type. The joints arebonded with American Steel & Wire Company ribbon bonds ing Company. The current is transmitted from a 500-kw,2300-volt alternating-current Westinghouse turbo-generatorin the power house in Shawnee, and is converted to directcurrent by a 300-kw General Electric motor-generator power house also contains two 500-volt d. c. machines,one 150-kw and the other 200-kw, used when occasion requires. OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION Bracket overhead construction is employed except on April 13,
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