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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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the Long IslandRailroad is entirely electrified, the Long Island City locationwill be in about the center of distribution. The three-phase alternating current, generated at the powerhouse, is carried in conduits through the built-up portion ofLong Island City as far as the railroad yards. From here thecables are brought overhead and carried on a specially designedlattice steel-pole line. The construction of this pole line ismost interesting, and represents an advance over anythinghitherto attempted in this direction. The poles are of verystrong construction and are mounted on concrete foundations.Wherever the transmission lines cross telegraph or telephonewires, the latter are led underneath the high-tension wires, thevery substantial character of the heavy electric cables preclud-ing their breaking and falling across the telegraph wires. Afurther precaution is taken by having the poles placed closertogether at such points. This pole line follows the railroad tracks to Winfield, from
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THIRD-RAIL LAYOUT AT HIGHWAY CROSSING NEAR WOODHAVEN JUNCTION,SHOWING ALSO SIGNALS, CATTLE GUARDS. GATES. ETC. which place it is led across country on a special right of wayto Glendale Junction, where it again follows the railroad to thesub-station at Woodhaven Junction. At this point the linesbranch off in the direction of the different sub-stations. In a transmission line of this kind, where bare wires areused, there is always a certain amount of danger to be fearedfrom the effects of lightning. This has been very carefullyguarded against in the present installation, as lightning arrest- November 4, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 831 ers have been placed in all sub-stations and special arresterand cut-out houses have been erected at all places where thetransmission wires are led from overhead and carried in under-ground or submarine conduits, and vice versa. The sub-stations are five in number, and are located at thefollowing places: Sub-station No. 1.—Grand and Atlantic Avenues,

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