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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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ties and villages. .Four-bolt and six-boltfish-plates are used. Concealed bonds are employed in the cityand Ohio Brass Companys outside soldered bonds in the coun-try. The track is cross-bonded every 500 ft. The ties arcstandard size and spacing. The poles are 35 ft., spaced 100 ft. apart, are all perfectlystraight and have 8-in. tops. The brackets are of the Rich-mond flexible type, 10 ft. long, of il/>-in. pipe. There are threecross arms, the two upper being designed to carry two sets ofthree-phase high-tension lines, although at present only oneset is installed. The upper arm carries one 12^-m. pin, whilethe lower has a pin on either end, so that the scheme of anequilateral triangle will not be carried out until another setof lines is installed. The arms are supported by wood braces,the pins are soaked in paraffine; the insulators are 7-in. double-petticoat chocolate-colored porcelain, tested for 40,000 volts,while the three high-phase high-tension wires are No. 4 copper. Cliffs
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CAR HOUSE AND FREIGHT TERMINAL OF tion line with the highways half a mile on either side; rightof way ranging from 40 to 60 feet. The track bed is graded12 ft. wide on a level and 14 ft. on the cuts. The heaviest cut on the line is 38 ft. deep at one point andabout 80,000 yards were taken out and filled nearby. At thispoint on the line there is a grade of 2.6 per cent, nearly a halfmile long, which is practically the only grade on the road.This cut was made nearly 40 ft. wide to avoid cave-ins, and a IE SPRINGFIELD, TROY & PIQUA RAILWAY The trolley wire is two 0000 grooved wire, dispensing with theuse of d. c. feeders. The company decided it would be advisable to use combina-tion cars exclusively. This enables traveling men to carrytheir trunks with them, and makes every run an express run.There are four of these cars, built by the John StephensonCompany. The general dimensions are: Length of body overcorner posts, 40 ft.; length over bumpers, 50 ft. 1 in.; width 122 STREET RAILWA

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