The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-08
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Consolidated Road will Expend $2,0OO,OO0
 in Removing Grade Crossings.

Consolidated Road will Expend $2,OOO,OOO
 in Removing Grade Crossings.
 The extensive work of eliminating
 the grade crossings of the Consolidated
 road in South Norwalk, which are
 among the most dangerous in the state,
 is in progress and will cost over $2,OOo,-
 OOO
 At preseSa the part of the city near
 the tracks is in disorder. A glimpse
 from the windows of a passing train
 reveals fragments of embankments, huge masses of unfinished masonry, a
 long trailing forest of uneven piles
 driven into the ground, crooked Hines of
 railway, and everything with a chaotic look. But in fact the work is progress | ing with wonderful rapidity and sys- | tenn, When it is considered that right through all this upheaval a hundred
 trains run daily, it seems almost incom- lprehensible how such work can be con ducted to advantage.
 The old station is in a valley; that is, the road from both ways runs down hill towards the depot. The improve ments begin about half a mile east of the river and run apparently up hill until the grade is fifteen feet above that of the old grade, then passing along for almost a mile to the westward. In or der to carry on the work without in terrupting the running of trains, tenn porary tracks have been laid in the street east of the old depot. South of the present drawbridge is being put up a temporary drawbridge, over which trains, are to be run until the new iron bridge supplants the old one. The two new depots are about completed, one for down trains and one for up. The old station isl to be torn down and over it's site are to be the four tracks. The new depots are similar in design to those at Port Chester and Mount Yer non-built of fire brick with floors of tile and mosaic. They are lighted by electricity and connected by an under ground tunnel after the fashion of the best London stations. The tunnel will be equipped like an arcade, with booths for flowers, soda, ice cream and trifies. The approaches to the depots are in- clined driveways, bounded by heavy masonry and top dressed with macad- am. overhead on Washington street will be four track iron bridge of 150 feet span. The cost of this will ap- proximate S60OOO. At Monroe street is another iron bridge of 60 feet span, which will have six tracks, besides an elaborate stone stairway. This will cost about $60000,
 Both sides of the long fill are massive retaining walls. From the river run ming westward for nearly @ mile, with the exception of where the two bridges are, is or will be a filling of nearly one million cubic yards of gravel. Five work trains of twenty-five cars each are engaged in hauling this gravel.
 Lowe street Is to run over the tracks | of the main line and Spring street un- der. This does away with all the grade Two of the six tracks that cross the Monroe street bridge are for the Wilson Point branch, and running off in a southwesterly direction is a mile of trestle work which will be filled 1 in to complete it. Tn addition to the actual cost of this piece of engineering work has to be added the temporary trestle work and drawbridge over the | river, which ultimately has to be all l taken away.