Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-13
INTEREST GROWS
IN R. R. MEASURE
Many Steelton Taxpayers Are
Discussing the Proposed
improvements

Discussion of the terms of the or
dinance now before council granting
the Pennsylvania Railroad the right
to construct its proposed freight spur
along the old Pennsylvania Canal has
aroused much interest in that meas
ure.
The most important parts of the
measure. which has already been
passed first and second reading, fol-
low:
IAN ordinance granting permission
by the Borough of Steelton to the
Pennsylvania railroad. to
construct and maintain a railroad
track and two spur sidings and one
passing siding in connection with said
main track in said borough of Steel
ton prescribing the condi-
tions upon which such permission is
granted and authorizing the proper
officers of the borough of Steelton to
enter into a proper contract with the
p. r. r. Co. carrying out the pro-
visions of this ordinance.
Section 1. The borough council of
the borough of Steelton, hereby or
dains; that permission is hereby
granted to the p. r. r. Co. to
construct and maintain n main rail-
road track and two spur sidings and
one passing siding in connection with
said main track in the
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be built upon property of the
said p. II. r. Co.. namely, upon the
towpath and in the bed of the old
Pennsylvania canal, and
maintain and operate a railway there
on. from a point $50 feet east of
Trewick street, in said borough;
thence in westerly direction along
the old Pennsylvania canal to the
western limits of the borough of Steel
n inls Gtrnnt with
track at grade, crossing Conestoga
street with three tracks at grade,
Franklin street with two tracks at
grade, as more fully and at large ap-
pear in the map or plan of said track
submitted by the p. r. r. Co. to the
borough council, which said plan is
made a part of this ordinance, and
which is on file in the council cham
ber in the borough of Steelton."
Section 2 says that the tracks shall
be laid and maintained at grade and
that the work shall be done under the
direction of the highway commission
er of the borough.
Section protects the borough from
any damage suits resulting from acci-
dents or property damage in con-
structing, operating and maintaining
these tracks.
Section 4. That said Pennsylva-
mia Railroad company shall place and
keep crossing watchman at the said
Franklin, Conestoga and Trewick
street crossings, of said railroad at all
times during the operation of trains,
or cars or other rolling stock across
said street at grade, that the said
company shall not at any time allow
its cars, engines or other equipment
or rolling stock to remain standing
within 20 feet of said street crossing.
Section ). This ordinance shall
not so into effect and no right shall
pass hereby until the proper con-
tract embodying these terms has been
prepared and executed by the proper
officers of the borough of Steelton
who are hereby authorized. empower
ed and directed to execute and de-
liver said contract, and of the said
Pennsylvania Railroad company and
approved by the Public Service Com
mission Of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania"
Section relates to the Public Ser
vice Commission.