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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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Baragwanath, Hoppes, Berryman,Reynolds andWain-wright feed water heaters; Chapman, Crane, Jenkins andLudlow valves; Worthington, Blake, Deane, Weir and con bronze is also used fur span w ire, while in the suburbs5-16-in. stranded galvanized wires are used. /Etna insula-tion is used throughout with line material made by Albert& J. M. Anderson, the originators of the .Etna insulation. The Chicago City Railway Company formerly used No.o trolley wire, but now uses No. 00, both because of its me-chanical strength and because of its assistance in helpingout the general feeder distribution system. A span wireconsisting of ;-in. seven strand galvanized iron cable isused at all places, but there are no guard wires on the < hi-cago City system, as they are believed to be a menace tolife and property, and in all cases where they were for-merly installed they have been taken down. In the engravings pages 630-631 are shown all types ofline material ever used on the Chicago City system, the
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PUMPS AND FEED WATER SYSTEM, SOUTH SIDE STATION Craig pumps; Rooney, Murphy, Link Belt, McCaslin,Babcock & Wilcox, Hunt, Jeffries and Borden & Sellersfurnaces, grates and stokers; the Siegrist lubricating sys-tem; and the DeRycke grease extractor. The kind of coal used chiefly in Chicago is the Indiana.screenings, which costs from $1.12 to $1.30 per ton. OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION IN CHICAGO The overhead structure in Chicago is simple in design,is well put up and is durable. There has been no attemptat over-ornamentation of poles, but the entire structureis as inconspicuous as is possible to obtain. Iron polesweighing from 900 lbs. to 1200 lbs. are used, with woodpoles through the alleys between streets. The standard trolley wire of the Union Traction Com-pany is No. o hard drawn copper, and the standard guardwire is No. 6 silicon bronze. In the business district sili- engraving. Fig. 5, showing the material selected as thecompanys present standard. The following description ofthes

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