. The street railway review . ter part of the year 1904. Active con-struction work was begun in January, 1905. In locating the road bed, care was taken in the elimination ofcurves and heavy grades. Outside of the corporation limits thereare but two sharp curves and the radius of one of these will be DESIGN OF CENTER SPANS OF VIADUCT OVER TWO STEAM ROADS NEAR LIMA, trains from Toledo to Cincinnati will be operated regularly. Inorder to do this the through cars will pass over five different prop-1 in s. All ears on the new road make connection at Lima wih t eFort Wayne, Van Wert & Lima Traction


. The street railway review . ter part of the year 1904. Active con-struction work was begun in January, 1905. In locating the road bed, care was taken in the elimination ofcurves and heavy grades. Outside of the corporation limits thereare but two sharp curves and the radius of one of these will be DESIGN OF CENTER SPANS OF VIADUCT OVER TWO STEAM ROADS NEAR LIMA, trains from Toledo to Cincinnati will be operated regularly. Inorder to do this the through cars will pass over five different prop-1 in s. All ears on the new road make connection at Lima wih t eFort Wayne, Van Wert & Lima Traction Co. and the Western OhioRy. and at Findlay with the Toledo, Bowling Green & SouthernTraction Co. and the Toledo, Fostoria & Findlay Ry. On the new line the trolley and feed wires are supported on3§-ft. chestnut poles with minimum 6-in. tops. They are set 7 in. from the track center, 6 ft. in the ground, 100 ft. apart onstraight track and 75 ft. on curves. breast plates are used but ~l. js^MIHj M—M 73- & PLAN OF NEW SUBSTATIONS WITH LIVING ROOMS. lengthened so as to permit a fast schedule. The grades are allbelow Ii per cent, with the exception of the viaduct approacheswhere the grade is 4^ per cent. Both concrete and timber culvertsand water passes are now in use but the former will be made stand-ard. Seventy-pound. A. S. C. 30-ft. rails are used. Theserest on 6 x 8-in. x S-ft. hard-wood ties laid with 2-ft. centers. The where it is necessary dead men and guy wires are used to keep thepoles in position. The pine arms which carry the three-phasetransmission line on 7-in. glass insulators, are 4x5 in. x 6 ft. in sizeand are fastened by a y2 x 13-in. bolt and braced by two ^xl^x24-in. galvanized iron braces. The braces are secured by }i x 2 and4-in. lag screws. The lower arms supporting the 400,000 cm. feedwire and the two telephone wires, over which the dispatching Jan. 15, [906 I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 43 is done, are 4x5111x4 ft. in size and fastene


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