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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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o 500 ft long. They have No. 10frogs and spring switches, and under the operating rules theeast end of every switch is locked open, so that every west-bound car takes the siding and eastbound cars the main line.The trolley wire is arranged in the same way, so that it is notnecessary to change the trolley at any time. At each siding isa circuit of six no-volt lamps; two at each switch and two inthe telephone booth, and the practice is to allow them to burnall the time. Extra lamps are carried in the telephone booth. Telephone booths are placed at all sidings and waiting rooms.Conductors take written copies of orders and read them to themotorman before leaving the switch or station. Telephonelines are No. 12 copper, and the phones are of the bridgingtype installed by the W. G. Nagel Electric Company, of To-ledo. The despatcher uses the standard steam train sheet, andin addition to despatching, it is part of his duty to check thetime slips with the train sheets. He figures mileage on the
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BEAVER CREEK BRIDGE AND UNDER CROSSING OF LAKESHORE ON THE LEFT bottom of the train sheets, distributing it into four classes—passenger, special passenger, freight and carload freight. All bridges are built of concrete and steel in accordance withsteam railroad practice, steel girders or spans being used ex-clusively where pipe and masonry culverts were insufficient.At Stryker, where the road crosses the Tiffin River, the bridgeconsists of a 90-ft. high truss and two 45^-ft. deck girderspans, and over Beaver Creek near Bryan there is a 65-ft.through girder, these being the largest bridges on the line. ROLLING STOCK The rolling stock was increased at the time of the opening ofthe Bryan extension by three passenger and two express cars

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