Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (find matches)
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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ouble double-tracked. track lines. It is stated that the trackage is growing at An important part of the recent track work is the con- a rate of about 100 miles per year for main line and 12 miles struction of a H-mile four-track entrance to the city of Los 24(i ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVIII. No. 9. Angeles. These tracks are built upon a private riglu of wayreaching to within a very short distance of the terminalstation. This four-track section of the route affords a high-speed terminal entrance for the four double-track divisionsextending southward from Los Angeles. An accompanyingillustration will serve to show the high character of the con- from 80 to V20 feet in width and the roadbed has a surface32 feet wide on fills and 34 feet wide in cuts. The track on the new Covina line is laid with a maximumgrade of 1.4 per cent and a maximum rate of curvature of 4degrees. On this division there are a number of especially in-teresting reinforced concrete bridge structures which will be
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Pacific Electric Railway—Four-Track Entrance to Los Angeles. struction of this line. The middle tracks are used for throughcars and are laid with 70-pound rail, while the outer tracks,used for freight and local cars, are laid with 60-pound rail. Roadway.As the mileage of this already extensive system has in- described in a later issue. There are also two double-track piletrestles having a total length of 2,160 feet. Other than the trestlethere are seven concrete arches of from 5 to 12 feet span,each containing from 60 to 600 cubic yards of concrete anda number of concrete undercrossings for driveways. Thetrack is laid with 70-pound rail on ties spaced 20% inches^

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