. The street railway review . oingquietlj on in South Chicago that has resulted inone of the best designed systems of electric trac-tion in the country. Besides having a modelplant the South Chicago Citj Railway has a number offeatures of special interest. No expense has been sparedto make everything first class, and the details have beenworked out with great care. THE LINE. The track is all 75-pound girder rail. The route coversfifteen miles of street, all of it being double track. Inconnection with the track lajing the company has putdown a lirst-class brick pavement on Ninet\-second streetf
. The street railway review . oingquietlj on in South Chicago that has resulted inone of the best designed systems of electric trac-tion in the country. Besides having a modelplant the South Chicago Citj Railway has a number offeatures of special interest. No expense has been sparedto make everything first class, and the details have beenworked out with great care. THE LINE. The track is all 75-pound girder rail. The route coversfifteen miles of street, all of it being double track. Inconnection with the track lajing the company has putdown a lirst-class brick pavement on Ninet\-second streetfor a distance of over 2,000 feet in the business portion ofthe town. On part of the road on Commercial avenuethey repaved along and between the tracks with cedarblocks. Rails are single bonded with No. o copper, channelpin fastening. From Ninety-second street north to used onlj on this road. The line is sectioned off accord-ing to its Hability to injury, the shortest sections being, ofcourse, in the business part of the SUBMARINE CABLE—ACTUAL SIZE. Each section has a separate feeder, and so is inde-pendent of all other sections, insuring safety in case offire. The overhead feeders are calculated to give a max-
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