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requirements and towns to be reached, length of practicable routes, 

 maintenance conditions, freedom from proiiable physical and electrical 

 interference, etc., it was decided to build on the southern route. 



This route, while of nearly the same length as the northern one and 

 offering some important advantages, was not free from difficulties 

 as it crosses the Allegheny Mountains within a few miles of the highest 



Fig. 8 — Cable Line Across Valley at Grand View 



point. Fig. 7 shows the cable line on what is know n as the seven-mile 

 stretch of the Lincoln Highway east of Ligonier, and here the going 

 was fairly good. The Philadelphia-Chicago aerial wire line is also 

 shown and two of the crossarms carrying 10 wires each are to be 

 removed in the near future and the circuits operated in the cable. 

 It is planned to remove the remaining two crossarms later on. Fig. 8 

 shows the cable across a valley and is taken from the point on the 

 Lincoln Highway called Grand View\ Fig. 9 shows the crossing 

 of the Juniata River east of Bedford where special construction was 

 used. Fig. 10 shows just one example of the conditions encountered 

 in crossing the many mountains and a photograph does not do the 

 scenery or the construction difificulties justice. On account of the 

 steep slopes, clamps are used at many points to fasten the cable to 

 the strand. 



Narrow-gage timber railroads were used in the mountains where 

 possible to get material to the job and Fig. 11 shows one of the regular 



