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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ity of Logansport is over the VandaliaRailroad at Clymers, where an interlocking switch will beoperated jointly with the Vandalia and Wabash from atower. Materials of Construction. Siding connections with the Wabash Railroad were ob-tained at Buck Creek. Colburn, Rockfield and Burrows. Theshipments of all material were distributed at these fourmaterial yards. The unloading of material was assumed by a ^-^■^ * tbs/r.o* Section /J-3/flckvSt. mi ffv*ro*CM6 ro*3£ft>L£ was still incomplete in the fall of 1906, the company put itsown men on the grading and started to complete the workon force account. A steam shovel equipment was put in the34-foot cut at the Lafayette end and locomotives with Rogerdump cars were used to haul the material. Gravel of aquality fit for ballasting was found in this cut and the strip-pings were used to make some of the high fills along theline where temporary trestles had been built. These trestles,with the exception of the decking, had been constructed of
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Lafayette & Logansport Traction Company—Details of ReinforcedConcrete Trolley Poles. separate contractor. The distribution of the material alongthe line was facilitated by the use of these four storage yards. Track and Roadway. The railway is built on private right of way throughoutexcept at the two terminal cities. The width of the rightof way varies from 40 t.: as the cuts and fills required. I he average width is about 50 feet. The line is laid 21outside tin- right of way lino of the Wabash Railroad, thusallowing for any future necessity for double-tracking. roadbed is constructed 16 feet wide oil fills and 22 Wide in cuts, with a shrinkage allowance on all fills over et. The i on fills Hid one-half to one while those in the cuts are one to one. The d !it. is ::i feet and the highest fill i about 10 feet, both of tl being just outside of the citj of Lafayette. Contracts for the grading were let in four p .bout nine miles each, and payment was made onlj as one-waywork, with a

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