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Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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the former third rail. The insulators are of standard form,having been supplied by the R. Thomas & Sons Company, EastLiverpool, Ohio. Another drawing shows the details of the chair construc-tion. As may be noted, the two halves are made in duplicate,an important saving in the original cost, and from an endview the opening may be seen to cor-respond in general with the outlineof the rail in its inverted position.Considerable space is left free aroundthe head portion of the rail, the bear-ing portion, which receives the DIAGRAM TO SHOW POSITIONS OF THE FORMER RAIL ANDTHE NEW INVERTED RAIL RELATIVE TO THE NEARERRUNNING CENTER RAILS OF THE GAUNTLET TRACKS tradistinction to the south track, which is termed the whiteline on account of the use of white signals for protection oftrains when on that track. The greatest difficulty encountered in the use of the thirdrail in this inverted position was that of supporting it. Noneof the present forms of third-rail insulators would permit of
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VIEW OF ONE END OF THE INVERTED THIRD RAIL AT ASECTION BREAK, SHOWING SPECIAL FORM OF NOSE USED supporting a T-rail in its inverted position, and it was thusfound necessary to design a special fitting or chair in order tothus support the rail above the insulator. As may be notedfrom the photographs, a standar 1 form of white porcelain third-rail insulator is used to support the rail, but for steadying therail upon this is provided a special two-piece cast-iron chairfitting, which is so arranged as to support the rail flexibly andfairly loose, in a position corresponding to that occupied by

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo241904newy
  • 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:182
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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