Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy ( find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 ( 1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ihood of a total interruption. ♦-♦> It is reported that contracts have been signed betweenthe Pacific Express Company and the Toledo, Urban &Interurban, the Western Ohio, and the Dayton & Troy,and that through-express cars will be operated over thelines the same as the fast passenger trains. It is also saidthat the express company has made a contract with theSpringfield, Troy & Piqua to operate over its line. Theexpress business is growing to be an important feature onthe electric roads. 874 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 20. THE OMAHA AND SOUTHERN INTERURBAN RAILWAY CORRESPONDENCE The recently completed line of the Omaha & SouthernInterurban Railway Company, which extends from SouthOmaha, Neb., to Belleview College and Fort Crook, 6 milessouth, is particularly noteworthy because of the amount ofgrading required. For the entire length of the line cuts aver-aged about 40,000 cu. yds. per mile, and for several miles INCREASE IN CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
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A 4S-FT. CUT ON THE ( )M.\HA & SOUTHERN INTERURBAN RAILWAYSHOWING THE STEEP BANKS the road is a succession of cuts and fills. The deepest cutis midway of the line and is 48 ft. deep. Owing to thepeculiar holding qualities of the clay in which the cutsare made the slope of the banks is made ^4 to i, which isquite in contrast to the practice of 13^ to i elsewhere. The line will probably be extended to Plattsmouth, about10 miles south of Fort Crook, the present southernterminus. This fort is a government post, and usually fouror five companies are stationed at it. The line is built<m private right of way 100 ft. wide. Fills for single trackare 22 ft. wide at the tops and cuts are 37 ft. wide at thebottom. Oak ties and 70-lb. rails were used. Span trolleyconstruction is employed. The poles, which are of cedar,are spaced 100 ft. apart, and those on one side of the trackare high enough to carry high-tension cross-arms. Thebutts are treated with a tar compound, the bi-product ob-taine

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