. Electric railway journal . ust,chief engineer Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern of two typical bridge and culvert designs are shownin the illustrations. TRACK CONSTRUCTION The main-line track is laid with 85-lb. A. S. C. E. railin standard lengths with Continuous joints and twin termi-nal compressed bonds. As is standard with this road, 8-in. x 8-ft. cedar ties were used, spaced seventeento a 33-ft. rail. To insure against side shear as well asspreading gage on curves, standard tie plates will be em-ployed at these points. Other track standards include pass-ing sidings 20
. Electric railway journal . ust,chief engineer Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern of two typical bridge and culvert designs are shownin the illustrations. TRACK CONSTRUCTION The main-line track is laid with 85-lb. A. S. C. E. railin standard lengths with Continuous joints and twin termi-nal compressed bonds. As is standard with this road, 8-in. x 8-ft. cedar ties were used, spaced seventeento a 33-ft. rail. To insure against side shear as well asspreading gage on curves, standard tie plates will be em-ployed at these points. Other track standards include pass-ing sidings 2000 ft. in length, double-ended, with No. 9turnouts in the main line. At each way station a passingtrack of this standard length has been built at 18-ft. cen-ters with the main track, and industrial or other side trackslead from it. Each turnout is provided with a high AjaxForge Companys switchstand, set on two 6-in. x 8-in. x12-ft. creosoted yellow pine head-blocks. Just north of La Porte City a comprehensive interchange. Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern—Catenary Constructionat Sidings track layout was installed between the main lines of theelectric railway and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific-Railroad, on the adjoining right-of-way. It was built torelieve the interchange track facilities between these roadsin West Waterloo, and to serve at the same time for thereception and delivery of freight coming from the newterritory tapped by the electric line south of La PorteCity. This interchange layout includes two parallel storagetracks sufficient in length properly to clear fifteen cars oneach, one serving as a delivery track and the other as areceiving track. Leads from both the steam and electric-roads approach these two storage tracks at both ends. Asmentioned in an article on the operation of this propertyin the Electric Railway Journal for Aug. 24, 1912, ap-proximately all the interchange traffic between the steamrailroads entering Waterloo is handled by the electricbelt l
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