. The street railway review . ted the steepest gradeon the entire road will be I/i per cent. The maximum grade onthe new work is .8 per cent for a distance of 1,400 ft. and the nextheaviest grade to this is .4 per cent. There will be no curve sharperihan I degree and there is a tangent 32 miles long between LakeBluff and Racine. There are a large number of cuts and fills alongthe road for the purpose of reducing grades and avoiding railroadgrade crossings which are entirely absent on this road. *lhe maxi-mum cut is ,\0 ft deep and the maxinnnn till J5 ft and Ronding. 1 he track iv l
. The street railway review . ted the steepest gradeon the entire road will be I/i per cent. The maximum grade onthe new work is .8 per cent for a distance of 1,400 ft. and the nextheaviest grade to this is .4 per cent. There will be no curve sharperihan I degree and there is a tangent 32 miles long between LakeBluff and Racine. There are a large number of cuts and fills alongthe road for the purpose of reducing grades and avoiding railroadgrade crossings which are entirely absent on this road. *lhe maxi-mum cut is ,\0 ft deep and the maxinnnn till J5 ft and Ronding. 1 he track iv laid with ft5-lb. T-rails in the cnniitry and rails thrnugh some nf the towns. The rails are bonded wituIhomas soldered rail bonds, type D, of 400,000 c. m. . bonds are made by the Lord Electric of Bostim, andconsist of a series of flat strips of soft rolled copper, solderedtogether at the ends and having a central flexible portion wherethe strips are not soldered. The ends of the bonds form flat. CI I \\ KSr 1JK.\NI H. \KE Bluflf where the west branch leaves the main line. One of these i~a highway bridge for the main line and the other is for a subwayunder the Chicago & Northwestern tracks through which the westbranch passes. In addition to the old line of the road on the eastfide of the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. the company also ownsprivate right of way from 100 to 125 ft. wide on the west side of theChicago & Northwestern Ry. running north from Lake Rluff. Thisline is 12I4 miles long to the state line and extends through Wau-kegan, Zion City and Winthrop Harbor. This gives the com-pany two parallel lines, one on cither side of the Chicago & North-western from Lake Bluff to VVaukcgan, and the line on the westside, which is entirely on private right of way except for a distanceof a quarter of a mile in North Chicago, is the one which will heextended north. Krom the slate line to Kenosha the distance miles, and from Kenosha
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