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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.
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n, including troughing,special terminal work, bracket construction, plazawork, overhead feeders and track return feeders, isof unusually heavy special construction. The Man-hattan overhead construction is of special steel latticegirders, supported on the steel poles, and also by at-tachment to the bridge structure proper. This super-structure is about 300 ft. long, and covers the fivecross-overs at the Manhattan terminal. It is of hard-wood oak troughing, to which are attached special bar-iron fittings on which trolley wheel operates. Thecontact bar, as shown in Fig. 1, is y% in. x 2l/2 ins.,supported at frequent points by specially insulatedhangers. The frogs and crossings were built of sheetsteel. This special construction is necessary on ac-count of the very large currents required for thehandling of the immense number of cars switching at the ter-minals. The details of this special overhead troughing areshown in the engraving. Along both approaches to the bridge proper are erected
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The Western Ohio Railway Company is planning to take itsconductors and ticket agents on an excursion over a numberof electric lines in the vicinity of Lima. The trip will be madefor the purpose of teaching them the shortest routes betweenpoints and the running time on other roads, so that agents andconductors can give correct information to those who desire totravel to distant points on electric roads. FIG. 1.—OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION AT MANHATTAN TERMI-NAL, SHOWING OVERHEAD CONTACT BARS ANDSHEET-STEEL TROUGHS heavy brackets extending over the double track. Thesebrackets are fastened by special fittings to the structural workof the bridge and are provided with two heavy guy rods, withturnbuckles. The two trolley wires are supported by a span November 19, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. wire along under the bracket. These brackets consist of 2K /2 m. extra strong pipe 18 ft. in length, and their general appear-ance is shown in Fig. 2. There is about 10,000 lineal ft. of single troughing

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