. The Street railway journal . 0 ft. wide. The roadbed, which is ballasted with cin-ders, contains one grade of about 2^2 per cent 200 ft. long,but other than this the grades are all under i per is one 20-ft. cut on the line and several fills 10 ft. to20 ft. high. The rails are 70 lbs. and are in jO-ft. lengths. Cedar CATENARY CONSTRUCTION ON CURVES ALONG THEOSKALOOSA-BEACON LINE inghouse loi B motors and National air brakes. One ex-tra car of smaller size is provided. The equipment is caredfor in the shops of the Oskaloosa Traction & Light Com-pany. The cash fare between terminii i
. The Street railway journal . 0 ft. wide. The roadbed, which is ballasted with cin-ders, contains one grade of about 2^2 per cent 200 ft. long,but other than this the grades are all under i per is one 20-ft. cut on the line and several fills 10 ft. to20 ft. high. The rails are 70 lbs. and are in jO-ft. lengths. Cedar CATENARY CONSTRUCTION ON CURVES ALONG THEOSKALOOSA-BEACON LINE inghouse loi B motors and National air brakes. One ex-tra car of smaller size is provided. The equipment is caredfor in the shops of the Oskaloosa Traction & Light Com-pany. The cash fare between terminii is 10 cents and theround-trip fare 15 cents. The road is operated in connection with the OskaloosaTraction & Light Company, of which H. W. Garner is gen-eral manager. The construction work was done by the En-gineering Construction & Securities Company, of Chicago. June 22, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. mi The accompanying illustrations give a good idea of theinteresting features of the system. Although the road has. ANGLE-IRON BRACKET AND STEADY BRACE ON THEOSKALOOSA-BEACON LINE been in operation but a few months, its earnings have beensuch as to encourage extending it as originally planned. ^♦^ OPENING OF THE ELECTRIFIED WEST SHORE BETWEENUTICA AND SYRACUSE Regular passenger service over the electrified division ofthe West Shore Railroad between Utica and Syracuse beganon Sunday, June 16, but as a fitting preliminary, C. LoomisAllen, general manager of the Oneida Railway Company,made preparations for an inaugural trip on June 15. In-vitations were issued, therefore, to a large number of promi-nent citizens in the towns along the line, to officialsof affiliated railway companies, electrical apparatus manu-facturers and representatives of the daily and technicalpress. Owing to the size of the party and to make thetrip more convenient for the guests, it was found advisableto run one two-car train from Utica, in charge of Mr. Allen,and a similar train from Syracuse, in charge of
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