. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . line are commodious and main-tained in good condition, a few stations recently erected being of permanentcharacter and quite handsome in design. Quite a number of their stations areprovided with brick paved platforms, which are standard with this pens, with the necessary appointments for feeding purposes, are locatedon the line of this road near Morris, Illinois. Shops suitable for their require-ments are located in Chicago, where some seven hundred men are employed. RIGHT. OF WAY. Their right of
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . line are commodious and main-tained in good condition, a few stations recently erected being of permanentcharacter and quite handsome in design. Quite a number of their stations areprovided with brick paved platforms, which are standard with this pens, with the necessary appointments for feeding purposes, are locatedon the line of this road near Morris, Illinois. Shops suitable for their require-ments are located in Chicago, where some seven hundred men are employed. RIGHT. OF WAY. Their right of way is maintained in a fairlj- clean condition and fencedwith standard barb wire fence, with board wing fences at highway crossings,which are neatly whitewashed on the main line. CONCLUSION. The main line is well provided with whistle posts, crossing signs and suchother signs necessarj- for convenience and safety in operation. Onthe Peoria branch quite a number of highway crossings were noticed withoutcrossing signs, and of such as were in a large number of them needed LXXIX The switches on the main line where double track is in use are both trailingand facing, but most of the crossovers, however, are put in trailing. Wherenecessity demands it semaphore signals are placed in advance of switchesthat are operated in connection with them for protection to trains. While their main track is in good line and surface, it was noticed that thistrack did not ride as smooth as it might, when we take into consideration thatthe track is laid with heavy steel, but it is owing, no doubt, to the greatamount of heavy traffic passing over a track laid with cedar ties without tieplates, except a small percentage. Before closing attention must be called to the important work done by thiscompany in the way of track elevation in the city of Chicago during the pastfive years, amounting to miles of roadway. This elevation not only in-cluded three (3) main tracks, but included all indust
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