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Show Railroad Crossings Are J Fast Being Eliminated Two hundred and fifty-nine railroad grade crossings were eliminated in the j construction of federal -aid roa-ds In ! 192.1. bringing the total eliminations to ! 1,?,S0, according to the bureau of public j roads of the United States Department i of Agriculture. This is the result ot the policy of eliminating grade crossings cross-ings wherever practicable adopted by the bureau and the state highway departments. de-partments. Eight hundred and seventy-four of the eliminations have been made by relocating highways so as to avoid crossings while the remainder have been eliminated by underpasses and overhead crossings. |