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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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transferring of passengers proved to be very unsatisfactory, Fig. I gives a general idea of the draw a^ it appe.irs when clti-nl,or in its normal position. The while sign linanl mtii in the ;iicliirris on the countys temporary wooden bridge, which i> more clearlyshown in Fig. 2, showing the draw open. Referring to the photo-graphs, the trestle work on the left or west of the draw, consistsof pile bents placeil on 15-ft, centers. )(ach henl lias four spnuipiles driven to solid fooling, and covered with ij-in, by 12-in. by9-ft. caps, fa-tcMicil willi .s x -4-in. dock spikes, Kvery bent iscross-braced with two 3 x u-in, planks run in opposite directions andon opposite sides of the piles. The bracing is made fast with J4--bolts to all the piles that it crosses, .Mternate bents have two pairsof 4xi2-in. longitudinal X braces on opposite sides and bolted topiles and caps. Notched over the caps arc provided two pairs of8 X i6-in. stringer timbers with 2-in, separators, joints being broken
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especially so during the winter months, and the dissatisfaction soonbegan to show itself by a very material decrease in the receipts ofthe line. A new draw-bridge was contemplated by the countyauthorities, but it was clear that at least two years would pass beforethe new draw could lie put into service, and that a great deal ofmoney would he loit by impairing traffic for so long a time. So theofficials of the Public Service Corporation decided to build a tem-fKirary trolley bridge of its own, that would .iccommodatc a singletrack, and on private right of way. After serious delays in securing jiermits, franchises, etc., for aproposed bridge on the otith side of the countys temporary bridge,work was commenced on .May 4, 11/J4, and through traflic wasrciiumed between Palerson and Hobokeii on June J.^, iy04, A lift-liriftgc with 40 ft, clear opening, of steel plate girders, wooden hoist-inK frame and 2tto lineal feet of pile trestle approaches, was putinto