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Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (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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INTERIOR CLOSED CAR 9H STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 21. round, and to conform to the standard in Cincinnati two wiresare placed 18 ins. apart. The right-hand wire is always used,as, of course, the overhead return system is not employed onthe interurban roads. The standard pole line carrying high-tension wires has threecross arms. The lowest is 18 ins. above the bracket, and hasprovision for telephone wires and direct-current feeders. Fivefeet above this is an 8-ft. cross-arm, carrying four pins forhigh-tension wires, two on each side of the pole. Two feet
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COMBINATION CAR 46 FT. LONG above the second arm is a 6-ft. arm carrying one high-tensionpin near each end. The two arms provide for two three-phasecircuits in equilateral triangular arrangement. The high-ten-sion insulators are the Knowles 30,000-volt, glass type, whichhave been found very satisfactory. The high-tension wires areNo. 4 hard-drawn copper for 10,000-volt transmission. Thedirect-current feeders are No. 0000, with the exception of 10miles of aluminum. Poles are 35 ft. tall and spaced 100 ft.apart. On the Rapid Railway the poles are of Idaho cedar, allstraight, with 8-in. tops, making a pole line that is hard to equal.All poles are being painted white with black butts. Westing-house and Garton-Daniels lightning arresters are used on polesevery half mile, being grounded to a 14-in. x 14-in. copper platesunk 5 ft. in the ditch. All pole lines are anchored every halfmile. Stromberg-Carlson iron box telephones are placed at

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo221903newy
  • 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:933
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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