File:The street railway review (1891) (14572410060).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
he accompanying engravings. One of these showsthe 103-ft. through lattice girder span which crosses the dry channelof the Mohawk River. Another engraving shows the 130-ft. 784 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII. Nn. lo. through lallicc truss span which crosses the Mohawk River justabove the 103-ft. span. These bridges are of very heavy design, the103-ft. span weighing about 08 tons and the 130-ft. span 135 tons.They were designed to carry the heaviest cars which the Utica &Mohawk Valley Railway Co. is now using, and are much heavierthan the average electric railway bridge. The steel for the struc riir bridge structure proper, beginning at the west end, com-prises a scries of ten concrete cement arches which begin wheretlie earth-fill ends, a point distant about 100 ft. from the west bankof the creek, and which ends at a point about 230 ft. beyond theeast bank of the creek. As stated, these arches vary in span fromft2 ft. to 665/. ft. The supports for the arches consist of two abut-
Text Appearing After Image:
COMBI.XED CONCRETE .\ND STEEL SP.\M BRIDGK .\r IIERKIMER-TOT.M. LENGTH tares was furnished and erected by the Snare &Cortlandt St., New York. Iriest Co. of 39 The Herkimer Bridge. The Herkimer Bridge, by means of which the companys carscross the West Canada Creek and the tracks of the New YorkCentral, excels in magnitude anything of the kind yet attempted inthis country, for, while it is true there are many bridges of concretesteel construction, and some of them with one, two or even threespans greater than any at Herkimer, yet the boldness of the designwhich provides for a series of ten concrete arches with spans from62 ft. to 66^ ft., and in addition to this continues the same struc-ture with a 225-ft. steel span, completing the viaduct with three55-ft. steel spans and making the bridge 1,212 ft. long, puts this mcnt-piers with nine intermediate piers. One of the features ofthe design provides that the intermediate piers shall be of twodifferent sizes, the third, sixth and eight

Note About Images