. The Street railway journal . FIG. 5.—STEAM SHOVEL WORKING IN GRAVEL PIT DURINGTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAILWAY work could be finished or the track put in shape. The exca-vated material from the cut, amounting to 188,000 cu. yds., was. FIG. 7.—VIEW ON CAZADERO LINE, SHOWING STANDARDTRACK favorably with the steam roads in that part of the country. Theheaviest cut on the system is east of Sellwood, at Willsburg,Fig. 8, where an excavation about 50 ft. deep was made for a hauled about a quarter of a mile and used to make a heavy fillacross the valley of Johnson Creek. This fill, a portion ofwhich
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 5.—STEAM SHOVEL WORKING IN GRAVEL PIT DURINGTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAILWAY work could be finished or the track put in shape. The exca-vated material from the cut, amounting to 188,000 cu. yds., was. FIG. 7.—VIEW ON CAZADERO LINE, SHOWING STANDARDTRACK favorably with the steam roads in that part of the country. Theheaviest cut on the system is east of Sellwood, at Willsburg,Fig. 8, where an excavation about 50 ft. deep was made for a hauled about a quarter of a mile and used to make a heavy fillacross the valley of Johnson Creek. This fill, a portion ofwhich is shown in Fig. 9, is about 35 ft. to 40 ft. high and 3200
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