Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1910, Page 21

ramT THERER HALF-TONE PAGES ONE TO YOWUAR BUILDING A RAILROAD ALONG CROWDED Engineering and Mechanical Problems the happenings, as t :onsists tn the ap. and empts where the laborers are ac analyzed his feeiings are chiefly those of anacyanece disturbed that he must change his train of though: aad waste some of Lis valuabie br: en ergy in pickng his way over mov sand, paving biocks and railroad s That the disarranged t dirt and heaps of paving stones sign progress and i opment does not oect thoughts. Sueh is not the street railway men, W wark the aty gut od orn up streets ar pears on the au t the present 18 Laing dome treet Railway compaay new and heavier stalied, and Kindr interruption in the creditable tg say that ones put I t reguiar sched Such is fitth avenue streets, and streets. A mile a mile at Bensc street, trom Ten There are man are cording to a syste: expert in thetr lin are accomplishe & When a partic material of a n is seat to the spot are comcentrated up in the middle away the ot} blocks of granite are ried awa Once the D the heels of th jek lies beneath e street will o year the street railway co If the distance is n -ompany will haul the earth be meeded Some pecple have besatify with lawns, and thes Where a stone work of excavation oot and is hauled rete or broken rock. Once merete or more way o appear upon the sceme and make see whether if is fit for comtimued wood this work the car rails as though The next step ing was taking piace piace lifting jack ted several along while his bel that they may be Should a car happe: mgn tads 3 sigmal with jaek. By touching a lever nermal position aad the vehiel ciear of the track the rails are eievated resumed. The rails are examined by decled ou’ biue overal ompany whetier or mot or saved for use n When the excaval sang has cles ment and dirt, and the inspectors b the steel gang follows with the necessary tools rails. Those which are being replaced three pounds to the yard. A few years ago they were comsidered “Be proper gyue for hesvy traffic and put down in place of tecides for onsigaed Omaba w ase on #ang appears with loads beneatn s laid buried tn this those sad workmen with showels and i cks to to a dept cks raise aad securely 2f crushed stone a depth 2 of about the rails o of six oue the requ fasiene inches nehe and Monster Switches i against any roserver nnected with pre the Omaba & mmense sums e expeuse in s generally at the proft Omaha & Coune 400 men for its ways at work, for { pany's work is never dooe accomplish making side of the quest constry ike the guod housewife THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. [owixsie CITY STREETS Interrupting Crowded Thoroughfares mprove- wi opping and every- i as fast as the practically Owing to heen no serious slevated or s ned on single various metal must and a mistajes is aken are *k from a stock mwood park. The a third va The stance of avement etion work 420 feet, all of whi empioys over a concrete ha men are al- is the lay . t to the lway com 3 1 1 r 13.200 renaired