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"CULVERT CROSSING, ST. CHARLES STREET R. R. NEW ORLEANS.

NOVEL CULVERT CROSSING.
The accompanying engraving from a photograph taken on the lines of the St. Charles Street Railroad Co., of New Orleans, is interesting as showing the wood paving used on all except the main streets, and also a novel culvert crossing. The drainage of New Orleans being on the surface the depth of crossings over the gutters has been limited to 5 inches in order not to interfere with the flow. The company is laying some 9 inch girder rails and at culverts it is necessary to cut away the lower flange and 4 inches of the web, and rivet angles to the web as shown in the illustration. "

Historical notes: Local historians working with old maps, city directories, etc have determined the most likely location of this view is Erato Street, looking lakewards, with Dryades (now O. C. Haley) running left and right in the foreground. Building at right was Dejan's Drug Store at the downtown lake corner of the intersection.

Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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