Schedule slide 3

Rail Delivery slide 4

Rail Installation slide 5
Inbound/Outbound Track Installed to Date slide 6
OCS Foundations slide 7
Water, Stormwater and Sewer Work slide 8
Electrical Work slide 9
Street Improvements slide 10
Paving slide 11
Maintenance Facility slide 12
Contact Info slide 13
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Note: Schedule
may be adjusted
as project moves
forward
 Preparing
rail for
welding
Rail was delivered in 60 segments.
on
S.
Jackson
Street

Rail was
welded on
site into
300 ft.
strings
Step 1 The old road is removed to a depth of
about 18, then an aggregate base is graded and
leveled.

Step 2 Step 3
Concrete
Track and forms are
rebar are set up
installed.

Some of the rail was pre-curved at the factory before being shipped to Seattle.
Here it is being installed at the corner of Broadway and Yesler Way.

Step 4
Concrete
is poured
and
finished
 February 2013

1,492 ft.
of paved
track were
completed
in February.

14,652 ft.
(out of a total of
28,000 ft.) have been
installed to date!
 Overhead Contact Systems (OCS) are the
overhead lines used to transmit electrical energy from
the energy supply point to the streetcar

Step 1 Step 3
To construct a Rebar and
foundation for the base for the
OCS pole, an auger is pole are
used to bore a hole inserted.
about 20 ft. deep.

Completed
OCS pole
foundation

Step 2
Concrete is
poured.
 Seattle
Public
Utilities
Filterra vault (SPU)
installation at S. makes a
Jackson near Rainier core
Ave. S. tap at 2nd
and S.
Jackson

Filterra Bioretention
Systems treat urban
runoff, before it enters
the stormwater Repairing a
system, by removing 6 side
suspended solids, sewer near
zinc, copper and oil. Pike and
Broadway

Water line installation at 12th and S. Jackson

 Seattle City
Light (SCL)
electrical
duct
bank at 2nd
and S.
Jackson

SCLs pre-
curved
steel
conduits
emerge from
duct bank at
2nd and S.
Jackson.

Electrical
conduits are a
piping system
used for
protection and
routing of
Excavation for SCLs duct bank at 2nd and S. Jackson electrical
wiring.
Finishing the concrete lane on Yesler at Broadway

Pouring concrete roadway on Yesler at Broadway

new
Pouring
westbound
curb lane on
S. Jackson
between 5th
and 6th
Asphalt paving installation
between the tracks on Broadway between Marion and
Madison
 Pouring the slab for the foundation
Erecting the buildings steel frame

This month a slab foundation was

poured and work was begun to
erect the steel frame of the
building.
The Maintenance and Operations Facility
This is where the systems operations personnel will be
located and the cars will be stored and maintained.
Learn more about the First Hill Streetcar
project by visiting the project website, by signing
up for email updates, and by contacting us:

206-257-2121
seattle.streetcar@seattle.gov

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