The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-25
WILL FINISH THE LINE
BY FIRST OF AUGUST
Work on Dallas-Waxahachie Inter.
urban Proceeding at Rapic
Rate--SettiDg Trolley
Poles.

nahihS progress at the rate or
b about $500 feet a day the tracx-
I laying machine and crew working
on the Dallas axahachie interur-
n ban late yesterday evening reached
b Five Mile Creek, leaving in their
n path the railroad over which six
new and modernly equipped coach
VI es, each with capacity of sixty pas
n sengers, will before this fall be
making hourly trips between the
VI two cities. The total distance from.
the court house at Dallas to the
I'll square at Waxahachie is 314 miles,
NJ though more than three miles is
y property of the Northern Texas
n Fraction Company, between Gang
II Boulevard, Oak Cliff and the inter.
%@urban terminal, Dallas.
H 1t is estimated that regular pas
Ii senger service on the new line will
NJ begin soon after the first of Aug
VI ust, barring unreasonable long delays
and accirents, A small army of
men, mostly those working from
M camps and the big material yards
II near Lancaster, is working night
II and day with the view to completing
as soon as possible both the right
W of way construction and terminal
Nj and substation work. There are
only three points where further
work remains to be done, a stretch
Il of track to be laid in the city linn
NJ its of Waxahachie, about days
rlr int a
bridges are to be built, one at Five
Mile Creek and the other at Cedar
Creek, where the line will cross the
Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe tracks.
Material for Five Mile has already
II arrived at the camps and transpor-
tation to the site of building will
\ begin tomorrow. This structure, as
well as the one at Cedar Greek,
would have been in place by now
I had the track been laid so the cars
of bridge iron could have been
brought to these points.
Trolley poles and switches, cat
tie guards and fences have been
placed from Waxahachie to a point
beyond Five Mile. Overhead wiring
and cabling will be started by ex-
s ira crews within a few days so ali
work can be carried on simultane-
ously Insulators, large and small,
freakish looking rods and appliances
are in the material yards ready to
be set in place as soon as working
men get to them.
Modern railroad building is per-
haps one OF the most interesting
sights that can be viewed. All that
experience and new inventions have
given to this line of activity are be-
ing used to advantage by the Stone
& Webster Engineering Corporation
in spanning the fertile and populous
country between Dallas and Waxa-
bachie. From statements of an OFF,
cial nature, eminating from the
heads of the different departments,
it is known that in the building or
this line the corporation intends to
complete it in such proportions as to
make it monument to all previous
rail projects. From the Boston Of
flee came the slogan to spare neither
timo nor expense in giving to Texas
road an electric road that would en-
body new and improved features
boasted of by no other line of the
same length.
Mark Lowd, chief engineer of the
Stone G. Webster properties in this
section, is taking an active part in
all departments of construction,
making Dallas his headquarters for
the time. He is closely associated
in an executive capacity with E. T.
Moore, general manager of the cor
poration interests in Dallas, and
with Superintendent of Construction
Townsend concerning all details OF
building. Only few days ago Mr..
Lowd said he had personal interest
in this lire, and that he was seeking
to make it one of the best in the
country.
There Will not be a grade nor
curve nor q bridge between Dallas
and Waxahchie that will prevent the
heavy type of cars to be used from
making speed of eighty miles au
hour, according to tho engineers.
The maximum curvature is only
six degrees, while the maximum
grcde is 2 per cent, save for the
approaches to the two viaducts. one
at Cedar Creek, where the line
crosses .he Santa Fo, and 1T point
1000 feet south OF Lancaster, where
the Katy tracks are crossed. The
right of way from terminus to termi-
nus is 100 feet wide, wider than the
average steam road in this country.
All grading. filling and draining
have been done in a manner to indi-
cate permanency from the first
shaping.
That the Stone & Webster Corpo-
ration intends to double-track the
Dallas-W axahachis road is suggest
ed by the manner in which the track
has been laid and the trolley poles
placed. Enough room has been left
- tho cast side 0f fha road bed to