01/09/1925 Board of Public Works Minutes

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descend from each side thereof at, the rate of five (5) feet in each one hundred (100) feet, until it intersects the present grade of Pine Street, (31) The grade of SOUTH WALNUT STM�l T iqhvve Ike same-:inLerse.ets:.�the tracks of the, Grand Trunk.-WesternRailway and the tracks of the Illinois Division of the New York Central --Railroad shall be raised not more than two `and seventy. -one hundredths (2.71) feet above the highest rail of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company's tracks as now maintained, the elevation of said rail being 61.48 when referred to South Bend datum. The grade of said street fourteen (14) feet .north and fourteen (14).feet south of the northerly and southerly rails of the tracks of the New -York Central,Railroad Company shall be raised not more than two and seventy-one hundredths (2 71) feet above ` the said highest rail of the Grand ' Trunk Western,.. Railway Company, and the grade of the approaches north and south from the above mentioned points shall be descending grades of five (5) feet to each qns hundred (100) feet until they intersect the present grade of Walnut Street, except that vertical curves forty (40) feet in length shall be provided at the upper and lower ends of the approaches.. (32) The grace. of- Harris Street where: the =same intersects the tracks of the Grand Trunk, Western ._Railway and. the. tracks -of the Illinois Division of the - New York Central RailRoad shall be raised not more'- than- one -M fot above the .highest raiL .of. the,Grand Trunk. Western Railway Company's tracks as -now maintained, the ele- vation of said tracks being 61.34 when referred -to South Bend datum.' , The grade of said street fourteen (14) feet north and fourteen (14) feet south of the northerly and southerly rails of the tracks of the New York Central RailRead' Company shall be raised not more than one(l) footZ above the said highest, rail of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, and the grade of the approach north from the point fourteen (14) feet north of the northerly rail of the New York Central Railroad Company's tracks shall be a descending grade of -five (5) feet to each ohe hundred (100) feet until it,. intersects the present grade -of Harris Street except that vertical 'curves forty (40) feet in length shall be prvided at the upper and lower ends of the appr®eh. The. grade of the .approach .from the point fourteen (14) feet south of the -southerly rail of the New York Central RailRoad Company's tracks shall be a descending grade along two vertical curves of *qual length and intersecting the present grade, of Harris Street at the north line of Ford Street. (33) That the tracks of the different railroad herein referred to shall be raised so as to conform tothe different street grades as herein fixed. (34) That - all streets .over..which the tracks of the New York Central RailRad Company are required by this_.reseution to be raised or.elevated, shall have the full amount 'of the clearanceaspruv�ided for in this resolution for -each of said streets for the 'full width -'beneath the superstructure,,and that tt all points where there is a change -in the direction of street grades as fixed above suitable allow- -&noes shall be made for vertical curves. (35) And the tracks of the Terre Haute and Logapsport Railroad Company `(now Pennsylvania Railroad Company) Indiana Northerrn Railway Company, Oliver Chilled Plow Company and Studebaker Corporation, whose tracks' intersect or connect with the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company, if said Companies or any of them, shall desire to keep and maintain said connection, shall be raised so as to conform to the grades of said New York.Central Railroad Company As herein established: and make proper connections with `same. (36) That the said improvement shall be made andpeid for.acoording tothe method and manner provided for in ern Act of the General Assembly of fts Indiana of 1923,'page 1109 or any other law applicable thereto. That the Chicago, South Bend &nd Northern Indiana Railway Company, which maintains street car traoks at Chapin Street and Michigan Street, where the same intersect the tracks of said Railroad Company be and is hereby ordered to reconstruct its tracks according to the grades herein provided for, and shall pay five (5) per cent of the cost of the -lateration of such grade crossings at suvh intersections. All other resolutions heretofore adopted by the Board of.Public Works for.the separation of tracks from the grades of any streets be and are hereby rescinded. AND B� IT FURTH&R RESOLVED, That this resolution as above modified be and is hereby in all things approved -and confirmed and it is hereby ordered that this resolution be referred to the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana for its consideration, ratifieation and approval. Adopted and corfirmed this - 9th..day of January 1925. L. B. SLAUGHTER L. P. HARDY ALBW RT F . HONER Board of Public Works. And that as so modified raid resolution be adopted and confirmed.