. The Street railway journal . try is solevel that there are few places requir-ing heavy grading, there is 1 mile justnorth of Indianapolis which calls fora large investment. This includes thecrossing of the White River on abridge of spans, seen in Fig. 4, thecrossing of the White River bottomson a long fill, and a deep cut directlythrough the bluff north of the 5 is a view looking toward thiscut, and Fig. 6 a view taken fromthe top of the bluff, showing thecut, the fill and the pole line for amile across the White River Valley. The cut is a maxi-mum of 35 ft. deep, and the fill, ju
. The Street railway journal . try is solevel that there are few places requir-ing heavy grading, there is 1 mile justnorth of Indianapolis which calls fora large investment. This includes thecrossing of the White River on abridge of spans, seen in Fig. 4, thecrossing of the White River bottomson a long fill, and a deep cut directlythrough the bluff north of the 5 is a view looking toward thiscut, and Fig. 6 a view taken fromthe top of the bluff, showing thecut, the fill and the pole line for amile across the White River Valley. The cut is a maxi-mum of 35 ft. deep, and the fill, just before entering • it,about 20 ft. high. All of the right of way is owned by thecompany except in the villages passed through, where fran-chises were secured for the use of streets between Indianapolisand Lebanon. The right of way parallels a well-settled high-way for some distance out of Indianapolis, but is severalhundred feet back from the highway. This is an ideal arrange- January 23, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 127. FIG. 3.—OVERHEAD LINE AND ROADBEDCONSTRUCTION merit in some respects and also has its draw-backs, especially from the standpoint of theright of way agent. By- paralleling the highwayat this distance the railway, of course, gets thebenefit of the traffic from the population whichis along the highway. However, farmers arelikely to raise more than ordinary objectionsto a right of way which separates them fromthese farms, and many farms are likely to beseparated from the owners house by the rail-road right of way. Another portion of the linebetween Indianapolis and Lebanon parallels the Big Four Railroad. A right of way of this kind is easy toobtain, and the location from an engineering standpoint islikely to be good. It does not reach the rural population aswell as a right of way adjacent tu a ghway. One remarkablefeature in railway location is to be tound between Lebanon andCrawfordsville. Here the right of way follows a section line,making an 18-mile ta
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