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Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ft., center tocenter, on which are laid 7-in. tram-head girder rails, weighing80 lbs. per yard. The rails are cut in 60-ft. lengths, and are sup-ported by rail braces, making the track work thoroughly reliable.The rails are connected by ordinary fish-plates, and protected bomlsare used. The overhead material is furnished by the Ohio Brass Company,and consists of a double trolley wire supported both by span wiresand side pole and brackets; 000 grooved trolley wire is used. Thedouble trolley wire gives sufficient feeder capacity for the Mineolabranch, but for the Freeport branch there is a single 0000 feed wire in the vicinity of the railroad tracks, the current will not beinterrupted and the car can be taken safely across. Another inter-esting feature of the overhead work is an overhead switch, bymeans of which the two trolley wires are brought together at a Y,which makes the trolley pole take the correct wire without atten-tion from the motorman. This switch is placed a few rods from
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STORAGE BATTERY AUXILIARY the angle of the Y. On one side of the switch the two trolley wiresare separated to the standard distance, and on the other they arebrought close together or a single wire is used. The switch has aspring tongue, and a trolley wheel approaching the switch from theY will be thrown by this tongue to the right-hand wire, but whengoing in the opposite direction the tongue is forced over and the

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo191902newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:823
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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