. The street railway review . 111! PLAN AND SECTIONS WITH MACADAM TRENCH CONSTRUCTION. layout at Eighth St., the latter including a double track crossinga double track with double track curves connecting three of thecorners. The rails and slot rails on cross streets were alsochanged and laid on concrete. All this work was completed in 60days with cable and electric cars passing over the tracks at inter-vals of two minutes, without a single accident or delay to traffic. A large portion of the special work put in by the Metropolitancompany in the last five years has been of the Lorain G
. The street railway review . 111! PLAN AND SECTIONS WITH MACADAM TRENCH CONSTRUCTION. layout at Eighth St., the latter including a double track crossinga double track with double track curves connecting three of thecorners. The rails and slot rails on cross streets were alsochanged and laid on concrete. All this work was completed in 60days with cable and electric cars passing over the tracks at inter-vals of two minutes, without a single accident or delay to traffic. A large portion of the special work put in by the Metropolitancompany in the last five years has been of the Lorain Guaranteeconstruction and most of the cable crossings are of the Loraincast steel design. Two very complicated pieces of special workfurnished by the Lorain Steel Co. are located at Grand Ave. andEighth and Ninth Sts, f Oct. is, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 559 Ilic clfvaUd stnuiuri- previously mentioned was biiill in i8W<. Itis of the truss type, the cross members being iron I beams 40 X 20 ft. 6 in. long, resting on iron posts. Where the smallersupporting g
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