. The street railway review . thetowns and awarded 5 cents damages and costs. The title of thecase is Covtelyou v. S. I. Midland R. R. Co. ^tM%ili^%vlcW* ■i 06 REMEDY FOR A DANGEROUS CROSSING. I!Y F. W. BBADY, M. B. The receut number of accidents at the laihdud crosshigs oftrolley lines has necessitated, in one case, some plan to reducethe possibility of such catastrophes. The plan, the writer pro-posed, was for the crossing at the point shown in Fig. 1. For-merly, the lines on each side of the tracks were owned l)y sipar-ate companies; one, wliose tracli ended at the railroad anot
. The street railway review . thetowns and awarded 5 cents damages and costs. The title of thecase is Covtelyou v. S. I. Midland R. R. Co. ^tM%ili^%vlcW* ■i 06 REMEDY FOR A DANGEROUS CROSSING. I!Y F. W. BBADY, M. B. The receut number of accidents at the laihdud crosshigs oftrolley lines has necessitated, in one case, some plan to reducethe possibility of such catastrophes. The plan, the writer pro-posed, was for the crossing at the point shown in Fig. 1. For-merly, the lines on each side of the tracks were owned l)y sipar-ate companies; one, wliose tracli ended at the railroad another whose line descended the hill, and, on a !)0 degreecurve, ran off to the right for a short distance, merely enoughto clear the street and provide waiting room for the cars. When the lines were consolidated, the first ideas of improve-ment included the plan of crossing the railroad, and op;ratiiigthrough car«. Although the public was strongly in favor of thiidea, a great and justifiable protest was raised against it, as. FIG. I. experience with heavily loailed cars c^M the hill, in liadweather, had shown the usefulness of the curve at the liotloiiiof the grade. To meet this difficulty variims plans were proposed. One de-sired an elevated structure built over the tracks; an impossibleplan as the street is down grade for a considerable distance be-yond the track; and. also, it would deprive the company of ac- cess to the depot grounds, to and from which most of the travelis carried. Fig. 2 shows the plan to be utilized. By continuing the linepast the depot, then crossing, and returning to the former line,the scheme follows the best steam road practice, of parallelingbranch lines for a consideralile distance before reaching the ac-tual point o,i junction. It provides runaway cars, as much,anyway, as a derailing switch could, and, additionally, the curvebeing of such large radius, it would lie very unlikely that thecar could be derailed. Then, again, it gives t
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