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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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on Sycamore Street.This was formerly known as the Mt. Auburn Cable Rail-way, and will be transformed to an electric line in the nearfuture. This change would probably have been made thisseason had it not been for the excessive rise in the price 434 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XV. No. 7. of steel rails. This cable line operates over steep grades,one of which is 13 per cent, and contains a compoundcurve. In case the change is made to electric tractionthis grade will be cut down, or will be avoided by makinga turn into an adjoining street. Tn the operation of the system it is found necessary to manipulated from the rear platform of a car as it passeson its regular route. The attendant fastens a strap to theside and end of the platform and connects the other endof the strap to the hoe handle on a line with the floor ofthe car. He then stands on the platform and holds tothe end of the handle, which comes above the dash and Street Railway Joumal,y.F. OVERHEAD WIRING ON PRICE HILL INCLINE
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Street Railway </< OVERHEAD WIRING WITH FIG. 8 WIRE AT ZOO LOOP clean the groove of the rails every day to prevent thewheels from riding upon the flanges. This is accom-plished by means of a peculiarly formed hoe or scraper,which is attached to a long flexible handle, and which is rests against it. By this means the hoe is pressed into thegroove with sufficient force to rake out the accumulatedsand and dirt as the car passes, and is also in position to bereadily lifted at the crossings and switches. Quite contrary to general expectation, a section of trackextending for three or four squares that was laid with theduplex type of construction has stood up all the years aswell, or better, than any other section of track. It will beremembered that this type of construction consists of asplit rail, laid with broken joints, and supported on castiron chairs, which, in turn, have broad bases and are sup-ported on concrete pedestals. The cast weld joints that have been employed are stand-

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