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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 practically a tangent, and it has beenselected by the General Electric Company as a place for makinghigh speed tests. On the Columbus-Delaware section themaximum grade is 2 per cent except for one 3^ per cent grade,which is to be lowered. North of Delaware the grade limit is1 -2 per cent. There are very few curves except in the cities,and none of them are over 4 degs., adapted for high speed.The company was unable to find gravel along its line, so it purchased a stone (juarry near Stratford and is ballasting theentire line with crushed stone. The crusher and constructioncars are illustrated herewith. Track is of 70-lb. A. S. C. E.section in 30-ft. lengths. The company experimented with bondson the Cohnnbus-Delaware section, and used three types,namely, American Steel & Wire, Ohio r>rass and Morris Ijonds.Rails are cross bonded every 1500 ft. with 0000 Ohio Brassbonds. Switches are 400 ft. long, with 79-ft. leads. No. 10frogs are used, with high switch stands equipped with oil
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DETAILS OF TRANSMISSION POLE lamps and targets. At a number of dangerous road crossingsthe company has installed Parish gong signals. These startringing when the car is within 1200 ft. of the crossing, and areoperated by the trolley wheel tripping a switch attached to thetrolley wire. There are few cuts or fills but there are severalvery good bridges, two of which, a double girder and a longtrestle, are illustrated herewith. The trestle, which is 990 ft.long and 65 ft. high, is an unfortunate structure owing to theIjeculiar land formation of slate shale. The bank slides con-tinually, and although the company has spent a large amountof money in driving piling and filling the bank it is impossibleto keep the Ijridge in line. The trestle is well built, and ofcourse perfectly safe, but the company has abandoned hope ofkeeping it in shape for high speed and will fill the entire ravine,requiring something like 300,000 ft. of dirt. Old settlers claimthat the large tree to the left of the lir

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