. The street railway review . level of this escarpment is from 200 to 300 ft. Severalsurveys had been made by various steam roads with the idea ofreaching the mill district of Lockport from the upper level, butwith the exception of the switch-back put in by the New YorkCentral, no road had been constructed as a result of them. Themain passenger line of the Lockport & Olcott Ry. made the de-scent through one of the city streets, using a maximum grade of8 per cent. In order to give an operative line for the freightthe road was designed to carry, a detour of four miles, as alreadystated, was made
. The street railway review . level of this escarpment is from 200 to 300 ft. Severalsurveys had been made by various steam roads with the idea ofreaching the mill district of Lockport from the upper level, butwith the exception of the switch-back put in by the New YorkCentral, no road had been constructed as a result of them. Themain passenger line of the Lockport & Olcott Ry. made the de-scent through one of the city streets, using a maximum grade of8 per cent. In order to give an operative line for the freightthe road was designed to carry, a detour of four miles, as alreadystated, was made about the city, enabling the mill district to bereached with a i^ per cent grade. The construction of these fourmiles involved a larger outlay in the roadbed than did the entireij miles from Lockport to Olcott. Three miles of the workw-ould have been considered heavy for steam road construction,and at one point a cut of 80 ft. was made. K considerable portionof this section of the road was in solid rock. Track facilities. ■ROLLEV SUSPENSION. ihrongli llic mill di-lriet proper were obtained muler an agree-nunl wilh llie New York Central, by means of which all thetraekage of that cipmi>any in the mill district was used in commonwith the Lipckport K; Olcoll. and as a consequence, these trackswere bonded and provided wilh overhead wires for electric construction of the Lockport & Olcott road involved nounusual engineering features, but the work was done in a man- M6 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XI, No. 6. iier conimoii only on steam roads of the best type. Somewhatsliarper grades are used in certain portions than would be followedin steam construction, but the materials throughout are such asvvill give eventually a roadbed as good as can be laid under pres-ent practice. Speeds approaching 60 miles an hour, with thef( ur 50-I1. p. motors used in the passenger service, are population of Lockport is about 20,000, and its manufacturinginterests are large f
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