. The Street railway journal . sForm Yards loop, and in addition one 1,000,000 circ. mil cablehas been laid as far as the Union Avenue yard. Third-railfeeders are tapped into these cables about 1800 ft. elevated structure has been carefully bonded for re-turn current, and each of the track rails is bonded to thestructure at intervals of about 400 ft. These bonds to thestructure are staggered so that with the four rails there isa bond about every 100 ft. No cross bonding betweenrails has been put in. All bonds of every kind when ap-plied have been coated with plastic amalgam. Work was
. The Street railway journal . sForm Yards loop, and in addition one 1,000,000 circ. mil cablehas been laid as far as the Union Avenue yard. Third-railfeeders are tapped into these cables about 1800 ft. elevated structure has been carefully bonded for re-turn current, and each of the track rails is bonded to thestructure at intervals of about 400 ft. These bonds to thestructure are staggered so that with the four rails there isa bond about every 100 ft. No cross bonding betweenrails has been put in. All bonds of every kind when ap-plied have been coated with plastic amalgam. Work was begun on erecting the steel structure in April,1907, from Butler Streeet west. Last September the erec- The Intjlanapoilt & Cincinnati TRACTION COMPANY Goo4 oalj tor fl»» cento to (ire. M -tGood for* lelB Fare or part payment utft greater Faro. Not Good for Fai« iaIndlanapoIlB. Void and not redeemable*ne year after date stamped on bock. SeU For 9 CentsForm V V »0 Preat t Oeal Ijfar. ^ FIG. 1.—DOUBLE FIVE-CENT TICKET. ELLIS AVENUE STATION ON KENWOOD BRANCH tion of the west end was practically completed and workwas begun on the east end starting again at Butler a few bents remain to be erected to complete the con-nection at Indiana Avenue with the main line. All of theriveting and painting is completed as far east as StateStreet and the superstructure is being pushed rapidly be-hind the painters. The work was carried out by the Chicago Junction Rail-road under the supervision and with the approval as todetails of Charles V. Weston, chief engineer of the SouthSide Elevated, now president and general manager of thatroad. J. B. Cox, chief engineer of the Chicago Junction,had general charge of the work, assisted by O. F. Cole incharge of field work. J. N. Darling, principal assistantconstructing engineer of the South Side Elevated, co-operated with them in supervising the construction. Thesteel work was designed by W. M. Hughes, consulting en-gineer, and was fabric
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