Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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ire harmony. follow-: 1 ieneral manage: « hi1 al superintendent, who re-port- to the general manager; two division superintendents, onechief and two assistanl train dispatcher-, reportinggeneral supi 1 intendenl ; one chii to thi general manager, he having charge of the power plant-, car hop . Detroit to Mi. Clemens. After this line had been operated forseveral year-, an extension from Mt. Clemens to lort Huron wascompleted am a commenced in the summer of 1900. The City Electric Railway Co., embracing all of the city line- in PortHuron, was taken into the System July I. 1901.The li ticall) lo 1, there being no grades of any conse- The standards of construction which have been fi :are those which are most approved by the steam railroad-. Theorganization of the force in the road department is based uponteam railway practice, dividing the line into sections, each underthe charge ol a ection foreman, these foremen reporting to thewho is in charge of the road department of the entireline.
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TYPICAL SCENE ON Till. BEAI BES SERVED KY THE RAPID RAILWAY. Sett. ao, 190a.) STREET RAILWAY K1A 11 \\ . S27 The track outside the cities is laid with rails of A. S. C. K.standard 70 and Go-lb. section, according to the requirements of thetraffic The ties are 6 x S in. \ S ft cedar for the tangents, andthe curves are laid on white oak tics of tlu Switches are standard railway split switches, with spring rail frog! standard construction, (..ravel from deposit, found along the line isused for ballasting. The few places where bridging 1- required arc provided withpile trestle, nine of them consisting of more than one bent, except-ing in the case of a viaduct over the Michigan Central R. K. atSt. Clair, where a trestle supporting the elevated track providesagainst the possibility of crossing accidents. This is the onlyplace where the line crosses another railroad at grade. Its route follows the shores of the St. Clair Flats, one of Detroitsfamous fishing, hunting and outing regions. The m

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