. Railway age . Anchor for Cable Conveyor. branch and .l-o Now York & (Ircouwood Lake will be the ^anie andwin follow the old location of Ihe latter road crossing the Haoken-Tack river near Snake Hill on a new bridge now being built. Thetwo lines will diverge just west of the bridge. Tlie westbound track of this line will pass under the freightand passenger tracks of the Susquehanna line and under the mainHue tracks The oastbound track will pass under the Susquehannaf eight tracks, joining the westbound and freight of theNewark branch. \\\ three will pass under the Boonton branch of. M
. Railway age . Anchor for Cable Conveyor. branch and .l-o Now York & (Ircouwood Lake will be the ^anie andwin follow the old location of Ihe latter road crossing the Haoken-Tack river near Snake Hill on a new bridge now being built. Thetwo lines will diverge just west of the bridge. Tlie westbound track of this line will pass under the freightand passenger tracks of the Susquehanna line and under the mainHue tracks The oastbound track will pass under the Susquehannaf eight tracks, joining the westbound and freight of theNewark branch. \\\ three will pass under the Boonton branch of. M*T 15. 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 671 the Lackawanna, and by a long curve reach the point of crossinKthe Hackensaok. This rearrangement work is in progress to the ex-tent thai the embankments are being built of the materialtaken from the open-cut excavation. There is required constructionof of new double-track line and partial abandonment miles of existing double-track line, most of which can be usedin freight service. Just west of Bergen hill are the Hackensack spans, some 78 ft. and .some 7i» ft. long, and a draw span ot 264 ft.,making a total length between abutment backwall faces of 730 abutments and piers are concrete on pile foundations. Thecontractors for the substructure are McMuUen & McDermott, NewYork; the superstructure will be fabricated and erected by the Amer-ican Bridge Company. The new line through the cut follows the general direction of
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