Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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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es its rights from the county commissioners the bluffs are capped with precipitous walls of hard rock, the Bc-rea grit, which marks the summits of the Chagrin valley hills.Mounting eastward from the Chagrin River the track crosses adeep ravine, and curves around a spur of the blufT, giving a beauti-ful panoramic view of hill and valley to the west and north. Leaving the hemlock belt, several maple woods are traversed, andthe line dividing Cuyahoga from Geauga county is here marked bya road. Northward from the track, about a mile from the countyline, extends a ledge of conglomerate rock, worn into picturesqueshapes, and afTording protection to big hemlocks. Less than amile distant, at a point along this ledge, occurs Chesters Cave, aseries of gigantic fissures in the conglomerate, washed out by thesubterranean streams. This place is now used as a pleasure re-sort. Scotland, the next town, is a hardwood lumber station of someimportance. Beyond Scotland the route is through a high, open,
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MAP OF THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC INTERURBAN LINES. and from the plank road company. Beyond Mayfield the line is allon a private right of way which the company considers one of itsmost valuable possessions. The next town to Mayfield is GatesMill, on the Chagrin River, and at this point the power house is lo-cated. Carrying the tracks over the Chagrin River there is onesteel, through-truss, pin-connected, bridge, about 100 ft. span, onmasonry abutments. The bridge was designed and erected by theNew Columbus Bridge Co. of Columbus, O., under the specificationsand supervision of the Osborn Engineering Co., of Cleveland. Incrossing the valley of the Chagrin River two timber trestles, 300 ft.long and 65 ft. high at their highest point, carry the cars over twodeep gulches. Cutting through the high east side bluffs opposite this point acreek of some volume makes what is named Deans Gully. Who-ever seeks diversion in a wild, exhilarating ramble will be able tospend several hours with pleasure in

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