Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
UNDERPASS IS ORDERED
Underpass and Other Changes along the
Lake Officially Ordered by Public
Service Commission

Service Commission
The following is copy of the official
order for the constructing of the un-
derpass at the Joe Barton crossing and
the changing of the highway, as spoken
of previously in this paper.
This is petition by the town of
Barton, in the county of Orleans in
this state, alleging that in said town,
on the line of railroad operated by the
petitionee, and about $500 feet north
erly from the ice house on the wester-
ly shore of Crystal Lake, is a very
dangerous railroad-highway crossing
at grade, which public safety requires
should be eliminated by the construc-
tion of an underpass and designated
connecting section of public highway;
and praying that it be so eliminated.
After due notice, hearing was had
on this petition at Barton on April 25,
1910, with the appearances noted at
the head hereof.
From the evidence, including our
personal examination of the locality,
we find that the above recited alJega-
tions of said petition are true; that
said grade crossing is among the most
dangerous on the line of railroad oper-
ated by the petitionee in Vermont; ;
and that public safety requires that it
be eliminated.byIthe construction of the
underpass and connecting section of
public highway specified in the follow
ing order.
ORDER.
For the purpose indicated in the
foregoing report, the town of Barton
is hereby ordered to lay out and, lex
cept the underpass and its approaches
within the limits of the railroad right
of way,) to construct, in the town Of
Barton, in the county of Orleans and
State of Vermont, the following de-
scribed connecting section of public
highway:
Beginning at point in said high
way about $50 feet northerly from the
; northwest corner of the ice house on
the westerly shore of Crystal Lake
thence north II degrees 27 minutes
west for a distance of 10705 feet,
! thence on curve to the north having
a radius of 90.33 feet for a distance
of 1872 feet; thence north degrees
80 minutes west for a distance of
1922 feet; thence north II degrees
AZ minutes west for distance of TAG
feet; thence north Fl degrees, nine
minutes west for a distance of 1876. :
feet; thence north "a degrees 81 min
utes west for distance of 324.3 feet
thence north Z3 degrees minutes
west for distance of COB feet; thence
north 80 degrees minutes west for {
distance of 355. 5 feet; thence north u
degrees 80 minutes west for a distance
of 524. 8 feet; thence north FL degrees
43 minutes west for distance of 58s
feet; thence north 8degrees % minutes
west for a distance of 354.3 feet
thence north Is degrees 42 minutes
west for a distance of 200 feet to {
point in said mentioned highway
) meaning to take one rod on the cas-
and two rods on the west of said de-
scribed line.
Said connecting section of highway
: except through the underpass herein
after mentioned, shall be three rod
wide, and shall have throughout fin
including shoulders, but excluding
bitches shall be properly crowned
ditched, drained, and covered will
The Boston & Maine railroad i
hereby ordered to construct that por
A tion of said connecting section of pub
1lC highway WT11CIl 10 WlCI111l GIIS
: of the railroad right of way wher
5 it crosses the same according to tn
= specifications given above and there
as a portion of said highway, to con
: struct beneath the railroad tracks a.
underpass with substantial grant
, abutments, spanned by plate girde
. bridge carrying the railroad track
!. The clear width of the underpass
, from face to face of the abutments
shall be at least twenty feet, and it
clear height above the surface of tn
, finished roadway shall be at leas
: thirteen feet.
All the work herein ordered, excep
: said underpass, and the roadway o
4 either side within the limits of tn
Z railroad right of way, shall be don
4 by the town of Barton.
5 The location of said connecting sec
t tion of public highway and underpass
5 together with the required grades,
accurately shown on the blue prin
plan and profile filed with this commits
! sion by the Boston & Maine railroa
! marked mo. 40 r w So and which
hereby referred to and made par
:. hereof.
! The Boston & Maine railroad, an
its successors in the operation of sal
: railroad, shall forever keep said under
pass, and so much of it's approaches a
3 are within the railroad right of way
in suitable condition for public travel