Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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master mechanic ofthe United Railroads of San Francisco, F. F. Bodler, wasalso formerly connected with the North Jersey system. 73^ STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. it The Bremgfarten-Dietikon Interurban Electric Railway The confines of Switzerland are not large enough, andthe country does not contain sufficiently large cities, tojustify the construction of such interurban electric railwaysystems as are built in the United States, but a number ofshort interurban lines have been installed in that country,and some of them are extremely interesting. The roadwhich is made the subject of this article differsfrom most of the European electric railways inthat it combines a passenger and freight business,and has a large traffic in the haulage of freight. in one of the illustrations on the following page. The gageof the line, which is a single-track road, is I m. There areseveral turnouts, the inside rails of which are spaced 35 mapart, so that there is a space between the cars, which are
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TYPICAL SCENES ALONG THE BREMGARTEN-DIET1KON INTERURBAN RAILWAY The total length of the line, which extends from thestation at Dietikon to Bremgarten, is 10.96 km, of whichpractically all is on the highway with the exception of thefour curves, where the sharp corner of the public highwaycompelled the railway company to purchase right of way in 2.2 m in width, of 1.3 m. A clear space is left between thecars and any buildings along the line of 2.1 m. The sharpest curve on the regular track is 30-m radius,although in the car house there are several of 25-m radius.Of the total length of track there are 2.81 km on curved order to have a curve of longer radius, as is clearly shown and 8.15 km on straight track. NoVfifofcfitt t, 1902.1 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 739 The maximum grade is 6 per cent for a distance of 90m, and is close to the town of Dietikon. The averagegrade on the entire line is 3.15 per cent. The track is substantially laid on a ballast of brokenstone, on which is a dressing o

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