The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-05
ELEVATION In NEW ARK
Plans for. Pulling Up the Penn
sylvania and Jersey
Central Tracks.
specfol to the Jcrseu citu Ne,rs.

NEWARK, June 5, 1S96.-The changes
in the railroads and streets proposed for
the elevation of the Pennsylvania and
New Jersey Central (Newark brancfo'
tracks in this city have been mapped
out in detail by the engineers, The
main line profile, Of the Pennsylvania
shows that at Commerce street the road
way will be cut four feet and the head
room under the new elevated structures
will be twelve feet. At Market street
the roadway will be cut four feet and
the head-room for wagons will be thir-
teen feet. At the Central Railroad cross
ing the Pennsylvania tracks will be ele-
waited ten and a half feet and the Cen
tral tracks from the present elevation
of thirty three feet to nearly forty, or
about seven feet higher than at present.
The railroad grades all the way from
Market street to the Lehigh Valley cross
ing in the lower part of the city viii
ibe slight. The heaviest grade viii be in
the lower port of the city, and will be
only 0.6 per cent. Other grades are only
0.2T per cent, 0.OS3 per cent, 0.032 per
cent. and o.369 per cent.
On the Newark Branch, Central Rail
be changed. The bridge over the Penn
sylvania will be raised as described.
Lawrence street is marked to be closed,
and here a track at a 21s per cent. grade
to the railroad yards is provided for
At Mulberry street the tracks are ele-
waited little and it is proposed to cut
down nearly eleven feet of the street
The head-room under the structure will
be about thirteen feet At the train shed
there will be only a slight elevation
above the present grade The grade
from the highest point of the elevation,
near the Pennsylvania crossing to the
train sheds and at the Broad street depot
is o.769 per cent.
The Centre street branch of the Penn
sylvanla is to remain at grade except
where it joints the main line The struc-
ture from the point where the Centre
street branch leaves the main line to the
point just south of the station where
the track comes to the present grade
there is a grade of / per cent. The first
private crossing north of the canal is to
be cut under the elevated structure 61h
feet
The tracks of the Pennsylvania main
about $500 feett the greatest deviation
from the present grade being 1870 feet
The Centre street branch of the Penn-
sylvania will be raised for about 400
feet. the highest point being about So
feet above the present grade The
tracks of the Jersey Central will also
be raised fer a distance of 2,S0O feet the
greatest deviation from the present grade
being about 81 feet Twenty bridges
viii be required for carrying the tracks
Of the Pennsylvania over the cross
streets, and one where it is crossed by
the Jersey Central Only one new bridge
viii be required on the latter, at the
point where 1t crosses Mulberry street
Regarding the work A. r Boiler, the
Cons sulting Engineer of the CITY, who
prepared the plans, Says:
BY mutual understanding the prob
purely professional spirit, each commits
ss.oner being DESTROYS of reaching 4
practical solution fr&n an engineering
and operating point Of View, ana avoid
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