. The Street railway journal . ple each. Eureka, with probably 600 people,lies about 1 mile south of the line, and Richland, on thespur already referred to, has a population of about 800 in-habitants. TRACK AND ROADWAY All of the route, but particularly the western portion, isextremely picturesque. For about two miles after leavingNewburg the track is laid over bluffs on the bank of theOhio River. The road then crosses behind the hills andpasses over Cypress Creek on truss steel construction 115ft. long. The only other steel structure on the line is thatover Pigeon Creek, which is 130 ft. in l
. The Street railway journal . ple each. Eureka, with probably 600 people,lies about 1 mile south of the line, and Richland, on thespur already referred to, has a population of about 800 in-habitants. TRACK AND ROADWAY All of the route, but particularly the western portion, isextremely picturesque. For about two miles after leavingNewburg the track is laid over bluffs on the bank of theOhio River. The road then crosses behind the hills andpasses over Cypress Creek on truss steel construction 115ft. long. The only other steel structure on the line is thatover Pigeon Creek, which is 130 ft. in length. Both reston concrete abutments. Near Yankeetown the tracks arecarried over a ravine on a wood trestle which will probablybe displaced later by a fill. The heaviest grading was necessary near Yankeetownwhere some 22-ft. cuts were made. East of Yankeetown thecountry is comparatively level. All cuts were made 22 at the bottom and fills are 14 ft. at the top. The track is laid with 70-lb. rails on oak ties, obtained. TRESTLE OVER A RAVINE NEAR YANKEETOWN largely from the neighboring country. The entire roadwas bonded with brazed bonds, the work being done by theElectric Railway Improvement Company, of Cleveland,Ohio. Sidings vary in length from 100 to 300 ft. and are lo-cated at about 3-mile intervals. All passing sidings are September 28, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 447 double end; others are stub end. The sidings were placedmore frequently than otherwise to provide for the simul-taneous operation of freight trains and passenger cars. Throughout its length the road is ballasted with graveltaken from the bed of the Ohio River, just above gravel was dug up and loaded into barges by a dredgeboat, and a tug towed the barges down the river to a coal-mine incline, which extends over the tracks of the electricline. The coal-mine engines were used to pull small carsof gravel up the incline, and these cars were dumped, eitherdirectly into the ballast cars or i
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