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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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s are caredfor on the outside lines. The location is on RailroadAvenue. On one side of the street is a row of fortyfoot poles and on the other a row of thirty-five footpoles. , To the forty foot ones the railway span wireis attached ten feet from the top. The fire alarm andpolice patrol wires have the next five feet and theTelephone Companys wires the remaining five feet ofthe pole. On the thirty-five foot poles the Electric EightCompanys territory is from the top down five feet and 488 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 8. the railvva3s the rest. This makes neat construction andobviates a double set of poles. Fig. 4 is a partial view of what is believed to be thelongest succes.sion of street railway trolley spans in theworld. It is on Ea,st Street, fronting the wharves and offourteen spans. The lea.st is 131 ft. long and the greatest 217ft. The railwaj company sought the privilege of erectingcenter poles here, but the Harbor Commissioners refu.sed. High Voltage Transmission Line.
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DETAILS OF NIAGARA HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE. A good piece of work was made of the construction byusing six inch, seven inch and eight inch extra heavy tubularpoles for side poles and in the light of the frequent acci-dents that occur in cities where center poles are u,sed andwhere accidents would not have occurred with side pole con-struction, the side pole method will probably be cheaper inthe end for the railway company. The span wire strainson this street run from 1050 to 2050 lbs. Fig. 5 .shows the derrick used for setting round polesand also gives a good view of one of the corner feed poles. The work on the pole line for the electric powertran.smission between Niagara Falls and Buffalo is beingcarried forward rapidly b)^ the contractors, the White-Crosby Company. In the city of Buffalo, among the firstusers of power will probably be the Buffalo RailwayCompany. Owing to the high voltage carried and the importance of keep-ing the line in goodcondition for use,the greate.st ca

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