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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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FIRST AND SPRING STREETS,NORTH SPRING STREET & Redondo Railway Com-ines only, have the routes of LOS ANGELES, LOOKING UP pole span construction prevails on all streets, and wherethe company operates over a private right of way, cen- 554 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 15. ter-poles are employed. In the business districts on Broadway,Spring and Main Streets, and the cross streets, whereverthe property owners made no objection, the side-poles havebeen removed and the span-wires fastened to the buildings bymeans of strain insulators. Fig. 2 is a view on Broadway show-ing the street unobstructed by poles, with the exception of twoor three used for arc lights at street intersections. OIL OPERATED SWITCHING SYSTEMA novel feature of the Los Angeles Railway Companys sys-tem is the switching apparatus and tower, located at the inter-
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ne 4.—STANDARD LOS ANGELES CAR section of First and Spring Streets. At this corner are adouble-track crossing and two double-track connecting curves.The cars of eight of the fifteen lines of the Los Angeles Rail-way Company, of three lines of the Pacific Electric RailwayCompany, and all the cars of the northern division of the LosAngeles Pacific Railroad Company pass this corner, giving aregular service of 210 cars an hour, which, during rush hours,and on holidays, is increased to over 300 cars an hour.. Until recently the switching was done by hand by a switch- controlling valves, etc., are located in the tower. To each ofthe four switches is run a pressure pipe, y% in. in diameter,and the oil cylinders of the switches are connected by onecommon return pipe to the oil tank in the tower. The pumpingapparatus occupies one side of the tower, and its inclosing caseaffords a seat for the switchman. There are two double-actingplunger pumps set on a malleable casting in which is placed a1

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