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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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is about 1000 ft. long,long. At one point a 10-degree curve could not be avoided because of the topography ofthe country, but with this exception the line is free of sharpcurves. The only steel structure on the line is a two-span ponytruss bridge over the Elkhart River, a few miles south ofGoshen. The spans, which rest on concrete footings, are96 ft. long and are designed to support a train of 60-ton cars.The only other structure worthy of mention is a 500-ft.trestle over a sink-hole north of Milford. The Big Four some points, where the road is built on a gravel deposit,ballasting is done at very little cost. The gravel is simplydug out of the right of way and shoveled over on the track.Chestnut ties 6 ins. x 8 ins. x 8 ft. in size and rails of stan-dard cross section and 70 lbs. in weight are employed. Out-side of city limits the joints, which are made with four-boltangle plates, are bonded with American Steel & Wire Com-pany soldered bonds placed on the ball of the rail. In the
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