Identifier: electricrailwayr17amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s and Rock creek. The bridge abutments are of concreteconstruction. There are several concrete waterways and cat-tle-passes, which are substantially built. The bridges wereerected by the Indiana Bridge Company. The track and road-way were built under contract by the Moore-Mansfield Con-struction Company of Indianapolis. The engineers were the Marion Bluffton & Eastern Traction Company—Liberty CenterSubstation. the prevailing custom in railway operation. This was donebecause the company expects to secure a large lighting busi-ness in the towns through which the lines pass. The transmission lines are supported on Western Elec-tric triple-petticoat porcelain insulators spaced 2Y2 feet aparton a single 9-foot cross arm located at the top of the poles.The pole line is composed of 40-foot Idaho cedar poles. Acopper feeder 250,000 circular mils in cross section, which istapped into the trolley every 1,300 feet, runs the length ofthe road. The trolley wire is No. 000 round copper and is
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Marion Bluffton & Eastern Traction Company—Bridge Over Mississenawa River. Riggs & Sherman Company of Toledo. O.. who were repre-sented by J. S. Worlej - The track is laid with standard white oak ties, 70-poundsteel rails in 33-foot lengths. 4 and 6 bolt splice bars, and isbonded with the Ohio Brass Companys solder bonds. Twothousand cubic yards of gravel per mile was used in ballast-ing the track supported on 9-foot tubular brackets at a height of 20 feet above the rails. The overhead work was built by C. O. Scott of Kokomo, Ind. Substations. The Van Buren substation is located 10 miles east ofMarion. The building is a 2-story brick structure 22 by 1feet. A space 55 feet Ions at the rear of the building is used April 6, 1907, ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 465 for the substation equipment and the balance of the groundfloor is fitted up for an office and waiting room. The secondstory is used as a living room by the station attendant. Theelectrical equipment of this station consists

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