. Electric railway journal . grading at these Wheaton to Elgin 15.89 o.56 0.77 1.22 18.44 points will be avoided. The maximum grade was kept at Cemetery branch 2.25 .... 0.25 0.15 2.65 . ° r Geneva jc. to Geneva 9.35 — 0.40 o.o7 9.82 i per cent maximum and the curves on the high-speed Total 6fTo4 2T98 He ^25 97s3 section in the country at 3 deg. An 80-lb. A. S. C. E. Fox River Division. standard rail in 60-ft. lengths with broken joints is used, Aurora-Elgin 18.88 0 80 o.n 19.79 tne joints on one rail being laid opposite the center of the Aurora-Yorkyiiie 12.14 2.03 o.os o.2i 14.46 other rail.
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. Electric railway journal . grading at these Wheaton to Elgin 15.89 o.56 0.77 1.22 18.44 points will be avoided. The maximum grade was kept at Cemetery branch 2.25 .... 0.25 0.15 2.65 . ° r Geneva jc. to Geneva 9.35 — 0.40 o.o7 9.82 i per cent maximum and the curves on the high-speed Total 6fTo4 2T98 He ^25 97s3 section in the country at 3 deg. An 80-lb. A. S. C. E. Fox River Division. standard rail in 60-ft. lengths with broken joints is used, Aurora-Elgin 18.88 0 80 o.n 19.79 tne joints on one rail being laid opposite the center of the Aurora-Yorkyiiie 12.14 2.03 o.os o.2i 14.46 other rail. There are 2816 ties to th- mi^e. Cedar ties Elgin-Carpentersville 4.20 .... 0.26 .... 4.46 1 ■ of standard size are used on straight track and white oak Aurora city°HneV., 3522 2°3 !.4 °32.... 1I10 ties on the curves. Six inches of ballast was plrvced und^r Elgin city lines 14.98 the ties. During the past nine years the cinder from t ie Total all lines 169.62 power house have been used as ballast. The^eda es sh: iv. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Concrete Bridge at Geneva FOUR-TRACKING Some of the trains of the Metropolitan West Side Ele-vated run for 3 miles over the tracks of the Aurora, Elgin& Chicago from the joint station at Fifty-second Ave-nue to Forest Park, an amusement resort at DesplainesAvenue. The traffic on this section is now so large thatthe Aurora company has arranged with the Metro-politan elevated company for the construction of two ad-ditional tracks as far west as Desplaines Avenue for the the effect of very little rail cutting after nine years ofheavy traffic, and the oak ties, so far as can be estimated, will have a life of from ten to fourteen years. The tieswhen installed received no preservative treatment. A Com-monwealth weed burner has recently been purchased fortrack maintenance work. The third-rail, which is a ioo-lb. T-section, is supportedby white oak ties, 6 in. x 8 in. x 9 ft., spaced 10 ft. apart.