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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (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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PLAN AND SECTIONS OF taining the most severe service. The character and extent ofthe trestle work are shown in the views presented, and the de-tails in the plan, section and elevation herewith. Timber usedfor trestles is all selected long-leaf yellow pine, put up with thegreatest care. It is all drift-pin construction, steel pins beingused for the purpose. either direction, additional feeder is run for about 2 miles,This low-tension feed wire instead of being placed on crossarms or brackets, is suspended upon a porcelain insulator,through which the span-wire is run. It makes a flexible sus-pension, is easy to string and keeps the bracket arm in thesocket. The trolley wire is carried 18 ft. above the rail. The
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MAIN POWER HOUSE method of suspension is clearly illustrated in the diagram, asare also the details of the transmission line. The high-tensionline is not transposed, and is protected by barb wire strungon glass insulators and grounded thoroughly every few hundredfeet. Lightning arresters have been placed every half mile alongthe line. During the construction period and before the sub- January 3, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 25 station had been put into operation work carswere run in Aiken, a distance of 18 milesfrom the main station, which was furnishingdirect current into the Hne, showing howcarefully the line was insulated and how wellthe track was bonded. MAIN POWER HOUSE The power house is located about 6j/^ milesfrom Augusta, on the stream furnishing thesource of supply for the Clearwater bleachery,which is absolutely pure and so cool that themost excellent results are obtained in con-densing. The location of the plant is markedon the map, and the character of the localitycan b

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