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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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SIllK EI.EV.XTIOX OF IOW Kk HOlSK. cepting within the cities and towns and the private right of wayvaries considerably in width, the mininumi width being 35 ft. andthe maximum width 175 ft. Wliile the road follows the highwaysat a number of places this location has not been generally adheredto, as in other places the road runs at some distance to the rearof the houses along the highways and for a considerable distance outskirts of the city where the car barn and freight bouse arelocated, as shown in the accompanying illustration, the companypurchased a right of way through one of the city blocks in orderto eliminate two sharp curves which would have otherwise beenunavoidable. There are two railroad surface crossings on the road,one being with the Erie Railroad in Springfield which is pro-
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ri,.\N OK POWER IIOlSE, SPKINCFIELD, TK0I ,-< llol A KV. it is located about midway between two parallel highways. Thisdeparture from the common practice of following the highwayswas made largely with a view to eliminating sharp curves or gradeswhich would interfere with high speed service, and the manage-ment of the road believes that the short distance between theneighboring houses and the railway would not be objectionable tccled by an interlockcr, and the other being with the Cincinnati.Hamilton & I).iyton at Troy, at which point a Porter derailer isinstalled. The line consists chiefly of long tangents, one of which,near Thackery, is five miles in length and there is another fourmiles long. The portion of the road which remains to be builtextends from Christiansburg north to Lena and thence- west to AiG. JO. 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 527 Piqua. The line between Lena and Piqua passes through the townsof Conover, Fletcher and Jordans and is parallel to the Pan Handleline,

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