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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (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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n-cipal street in Redondo and Fig. 3 illustratesthe passenger station and office building ofthe company, with the Hotel Redondo in thebackground. A scene in Inglewood on thenew route is shown in Fig. 2. TRACK AND OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION New 60-lb. A. S. C. E. section steel T-rails have been in-stalled over both routes. These are laid with even suspendedjoints on 6 in. x 8 in. x 6 ft. ties. Fifteen ties are requiredfor a 30-ft. rail length and at the joints the ties are spread10 ins. apart. Standard 24-in. four-bolt angle-irons protectthe Edison-Brown plastic bonds that are used throughout thesystem. The tracks are all of the 3-ft. 6-in. gage that is usedon the local Los Angeles street systems. Center pole overhead construction has been used through-out, with 15-ft. track centers. Thirty-five ft. round cedar poleswith 8-in. minimum tops carry the bracket trolley supportsand the high-tension, feed and telephone wires, the arrange-ment being as indicated in the accompanying sketch, Fig. 5.
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FIG. 6.—BELVIDERE SUB-STATION The company receives its power under contract from the Pa-cific Electric Railway Company, of Los Angeles, in the formof three-phase, 50-cycle, 15,000-volt alternating-current, atwhich potential it is distributed to the two sub-stations at Bel-videre and Centinela. The high-tension wires are carried onNo. 1 Provo glass insulators mounted on special pins 1)4 in-x 12 ins. The wires are arranged in the form of an equilat-eral triangle, with 36-in. sides. The top pin is inserted in the top of the pole and two lower ones are carried by a special4 ft. x in. x 3^4 in. Oregon pine cross-arm secured to thepole in a 2%-in gain by a ^ in. x 10 in. machine bolt. Theinsulator pins are fastened by %-in. maple dowel pins. The FIG. 4.—PRINCIPAL Si REET IN REDONDO cross-arm carrying the 600,000 circ. mil feeder cable,and thetelephone wires is also of Oregon pine. It is 6 ft. x ~,y2 in.x 3% in., and in addition to a Y% in. x 12 in. machine bolt issupported by two 24 in.

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