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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.
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FIG. FIG. 3—SWITCHING TOWER AT Company and the Los Angelespany, which operate interurban 1 2.—VIEW OF BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, SHOWING STREET WITH NO TROLLEY POLES,SPAN WIRES BEING SUPPORTED FROM BUILDINGS TRACK AND OVERHEADWORK For paved and grav-eled streets the trackconstruction is identicalwith that of the PacificElectric Railway Com-pany, described and il-lustrated in the StreetRailway Journal ofFeb. 27, with the follow-ing exception: The LosAngeles Railway linesare all laid with a 3-ft.6 in. gage. In some por-tions of the city, particu-larly in the new Gar-vanza extension, someunusually heavy gradingwas necessary for theconstruction of the lines.One branch running toWestlake Park on Sec-ond and First streets hasa number of very heavygrades, the maximum be-ing 11 y2 per cent. In the overhead con-struction t h e PacificElectric standards areused, all trolley wirebeing of No. 000 double-grooved wire. The side-
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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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