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Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ad is supplied with currentthrough an overhead trolley with span-wire construction. Asingle round 0000 hard-drawn wire is used, sectioned betweenstations for facilitating the localization of faults. Barestranded copper cable with feed-in taps at every ten poles con-vey current from distributing stations. The pole line consistsof 30-ft. and 40-ft. poles, set with a backward rake of about3 ft. at the span. A 100-ft. spacing is usual on straight runs,reduced on curves where the poles are reinforced by back guysstrung nearly vertically by reason of the rake and limited widthof roadway. 424 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 10. Through towns iron poles are largely used. The trolley issuspended from 5-16-in. galvanized steel strand, with soldered>ears, and cap and cone straight-line hangers, pullovers beingsubstituted on curves. The span wire is permanently loopedthrough insulated eye-bolts, passing through the poles withextra thread for taking up sag. The trolley curves are sprung
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CAR HOUSE AND SHOPS AT NEW HAVEN in by guys, and the wire is anchored at intervals by back andhead guys. The feeders are carried upon a four-pin arm,through-bolted and braced to the 40-ft. poles just above thespan wire. Upon all curves greater than 4 degs. double armsare employed for greater safety. CAR HOUSES AND REPAIR SHOPSThe main storage and repair buildings of the road are atpresent located at New Haven, about 500 ft. back of the mainline to Uniontown, with which the yard tracks are connected. are provided for in buildings erected by the former companies. The New Haven shops comprise three independent buildingsof approximately the same size, viz., the car house repair shopand woodworking and paint shop, all of the same general con-struction, to which the Uniontown and Iron Bridge car housesand brick firewalls between storage compartments. The roofsare of 2-in. matched pine sheathing, laid on 4-in. x 6-in. woodpurlins, and covered by tarred paper and gravel. Double sashwindows wi

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