Electric railway review (1906) (14758538282)

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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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ade with the street railway system of that city,which is owned by the company. The distance from DesMoines to Ft. Dodge, exclusive of the Ames branch, is 85.5miles, and from Des Moines to Ames is 35.9 miles. Electrification of Steam Railway. The work of electrifying the steam railway between DesMoines Junction and Ft. Dodge Junction has practically beencompleted. This consisted principally of bonding the rails,erecting a pole line and stringing the trolley and high-tensionwires. However, in anticipation of the operation of theelectric cars at high speed, it has been found advisable toease many of the curves and to reduce the grades. Track and Roadway. The track, supported by an excellent roadbed, is laid with70-pound rails. Between Des Moines and Des Moines Junc-tion the track work is practically completed. The steel isnow being laid between Kelley and Ames and between Ft.Dodge Junction and Ft. Dodge. The line from Des Moines toKelley and from Kelley to Ames will probably be completed
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Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway—Timber Trestle 800 Feet Long and 165 Feet High. operation by electricity on July 1, 1907, and the entiresystem, 85.5 miles in length, will be opened for traffic onSeptember 1. In the accompanying map the lines of the Newton &Northwestern and the Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern areshown. The electrified portion of the steam railway is be-tween Des Moines Junction and Ft. Dodge Junction. TheFt. Dodge Des Moines & Southern has for its southern ter-minus Des Moines, the capital city of the state of Iowa.Entrance to this city is made over the tracks of the DesMoines City Railway Company. From Des Moines the line extends almost due north to before July 1 and the entire line completed before Septem-ber 1. The steel on the Ft. Dodge division is now laid. Onaccount of the proposed dual operation of steam and electrictrains the trolley wire is being hung 21 feet 6 inches abovethe rails. Tubular iron brackets and No. 0000 trolley wireare