Arizona republican., 1911-05-18
A FEAT OF STREET
 RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
NEW TRACK BETWEEN SEVENTH STREET AND CAR BARNS
 LAID IN THREE DAYS.
Company Will Begin Work on the
 Improvements.

Traffic will br suspended on the
 East Washington street line this
 morning for thirty minutes between S| and S;5O, when the new track which
 has been laid between the car barns
 of the Phoenix Street Railway com pany and Seventh avenue is swung
 over and connected with the old line
 The new track has not been laid in a
 permanent bed. but was built along
 the old line. and this morning. as lt
 Is ready for use. the old car track will be disconnected and the end Of
 the new track will be bodily carried into such position that it can be con- nected with the main line running east and west on Washington
 The early completion of this m- proyement is regarded as a feat of railroad construction. as the work was first undertaken last Monday morn ing, and so rapid has been the pro SreSs that in three days it has been placed in condition to support the traffic. Superintendent S. Ii. Mitchell will receive cOngratulation today for the quickness with which he has car ried out the work 1t was done un- der his supervision, and was not let out tO a contractor. Twenty-Five men have been employed along the line between the car barns and Seventh. who have worked under the direction of a competent foreman. and although the track was not laid in an attempt tO make a record. street railway con StructiOn men will he ready to admit that a record has nevertheless been made
 When the new cars for the Glen dale line were received Mr Mitchell found that the steel of the old track would be too light to carry them. as they are much heavier than the cars at present in use. The track of the old line. weighed thirty-siX pounds foot. and the steel employed in the | construction of the new line is of l fifty-SiX pounds weight. which will ! give the track all the strength needed ' to carry the load of the heaviest ears ! now in use on street railways i'm any city. other than the large interurbau | coaches which run on standard weight 1 steel. such as iS employed in the 1 transcontinental railroads.
 The relaying of the line between the car barns and Seventh street is only one of the improvements which the management of the street railway is planning to make Within s few days the foreman will have his men at work on the line between Seventh avenue and Thirteenth. where the same fifty-siX pound steel will be laid. it iS expected that the work beyond Seventh avenue will hoe com pleted in the same record breaking time as Was required for the con struction of the track completed this 
 II i- the plan of the superintendent to lay a heavy track between Seventh avenue and Seventh street when the work of paving iS well under way Il and this will giv, the Phoenix street railway company a track Of uniform weight between the barns and Thir- tecnth avenue. beyond which point the fifty-siX pound rails were laid a little more than a year ago.
 Speaking yesterday of the improve ments made by the company. Mir. Mitchell said.
 We plan to lay the new track without making any more than the minimum amount of inconvenience for the people who use our cars find that by laying the new rails beside the old ones. and con meeting them with the terminal points only after the entire work is com pleted we have a very small delay. such as We will have this morning. when I expect tn see the cars running over the new track in twenty or thirty minutes after the old one is taken out of service. It saves time, and inconvenience in transferring.
 Mir Mitchell states that the new rack on Washington which k placed in use this morning will be bedded .o grade by Friday night