Electric railway review (1906) (14738603056)

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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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Ben-Hur Route—Flat Top Ballasted Floor Concrete Bridge. station by a run of three miles over the tracks of the Indi-anapolis Street Railway. Between terminals the route closelyparallels that of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. LouisRailway. Accompanying illustrations show the general char-acter of the property and illustrate in detail some of its manyinteresting constructional features. the line is at Xew Ross, where the Central Indiana Railroadis intersected. The interurban track is laid with st-ndard S5-poundT-rails from Indianapolis to Brownsburg, and from Browns-burg to Crawfordsville a 70-pound section is used. The trackis all laid to standard gauge on approximately two thousand 618 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 21.
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Ben-Hur Route—Plan and Sectional Elevation of Power Station at Crawfordsville, Showing Arrangement of Machinery. May 23, 190S. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW r.l.i eight hundred ti by 8 inch oak and chestnut ties per mile.The rails are spliced with standard -1-bolt angle bars. All therail bonds are of 250,000 circular-mil cross section. For halfthe track soldered bonds were used, supplied by the LordElectric Company, and for the remainder of the work a 10-inch United States pin-driven terminal bond, manufactured bythe American Steel & Wire Company, was used. Overhead Line Construction. The trolley circuits are fed from a generating station atCrawfordsville through the medium of four substations—onelocated in the power station and the others spaced approxi-mately 13 miles apart toward Indianapolis. Current is dis-tributed to the outlying substations at a potential of 33,000volts. The transmission line comprises three No. 4 B. & S.gauge bare copper wires, carried on No. 3026 Thomas