06/17/1930 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday, June I7th. , 1930, 123 N ET YORK CENTR.AAL RAILROAD COIF P10TY (West of Buf fa to ) VESTERN DIVISION PROPOSED GRADE SEPARATION DIVISION WALNUT AND CHERRY STREETS SOUTH BEND INDIANA. • Specifications and estimate of cost cif all work in connection with the alteration and elevation of the New York Central Railroad Company's main line tracks a the it intersection with Division St. Walnut St. Cherry St. and Arnold St., j�and the alteration and elevation of the New York Central Railroad Company's connecting track to the Mi ch igan Central Ra ilr oad 'at its intersection with Division St. and the j construction of a subway under the main line tracks of the New York Central Railroad !j at the intersection of Division and Vfalnut Sts., and a pedestrian subway ar Cherry St. except pavement, sidewalk, drainage and approaches, in compliance with Declaratory Resolution passed April I5th. , I930, requiring the filing of plans, specifications and I� estimates under Modified Resolution No.5. The work to be done is indicated on the following plans: - General Pla ,n Scale I"L 50' da ted Ilay 24 1930 General Bk fig&^P1vn, No.B_9267. Falsework Plan No. B-9262. Masonry Plans No.B-9265 (3 sheets) Steel Plans No.B-9266 (8 sheets) The work included in plans, specification and estimates prepared by the New York Central. Railroad is as f o11 ows : - i Raise the main line tracks of the N. Y. C. R. R. beginning on the crest at about station 4476/47, thence ascending easterly on a 0.3% grade to about • station 4500/90, thence on an ascending grade of 0.072%'to an intersection with present grade of tracks at about station 45I4/30; suitable verticle curves being used at changes in grade as shown on general plan dated May 24,I930. Raise the tracks of the New York Central connecting track to the PGIi chigan Central Railroad to the new grade of the main line tracks at their crossing, using I.0% runoff grades with suitable vertical curves. At the intersection of Division Street and vValnut Street with the � j! main line tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company the surfaces of said j Division street and said Walnut Street shall be depressed nine and seventy-six one hundredths (9.76) feet below the average grade level of said streets at the end of existing approach grades as now maintained; said depression at the lowest point shall not be lower then elevation forty-nine' and ninety three one hundredths (49.93) when • referred to City of South Bend llatum, and eleva.tion one hundred and thirty-five and !fourteen one hundredths (I35.14) when referred ti N. Y. C. R. R. datum,) Bridges for j five tracks to be I-beam. construction rath c onerete deck and steel facia girders sup- ported on concrete abutments at the street lines,, and steel clums at the curb li#.es of Walnut Street and at the center line and curb lines of Division St. , providing 52 j feet between curbs and two I4-foot sidewalk spaces fo* Division Street and 30 feet between curbs and two 9-foot sidewalk spaces for p alnut Street with a minumum under - clearance of I3 feet. Angle of crossing 25 ,-06'-24" with Division Street. At the intersection of Division Street with the track of the New �i Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad Company and the track of The New York Central . Ra-.lroad Company's connecting track to the i=ichigan Central Ra ilroad, said tracks of ij bath railroads being contiguous. , the surface of said Division 6treet and the tracks of the said railroad companies shall be raised not more than three and thirty-one one -hundredths (3.3I) feet above the top bf rail grade of the now existing ivew York ,!Central Railroad Company's connecting track to the Tdjichigan Central Railroad as now maintained at said crossing. At the intersection of Cherry Street with the main line tracks of the New York gent ral Ra it roa d Co mpany a p or ti on o f the our fa c e of sa i d C he rr y Stre et I! shall be depressed to accomodate the construction of pedestrian subway, the floor of (which shall not be less than elevation fifty-four and fifty-nine one hundredths ;I (54,59) when referred_ to City of South Bend datum and elevation one hundred. and • j thirty-nine and eighty one -hundredths (139.80) when referred to INT. Y. C. R. R. datum, the said pedestrian subway to be reinf creed concrete and I-beam construction and shall jhave an inside width of eight (8) feet and an inside height of eight (8) feet. At the intersection of Arnold Utreet with the main line tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company the surface of said Arnold "treet and the tracks of said railroad company shall be raised not more than one and one-half (I*) feet abive the top of rail grade of The New York Central Railroad Company's main line tracks as now maintained at said crossing, Cost of all work included in N. Y. C. R. R. estim to to be divided New York Central Railroad 65%; City of South Bend 35%. -•