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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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ents of the company,and have been referred to previously in the Street RailwayJournal. An improvement recently completed is the extensionof the Hemphill line to the Fort Worth Iron & Steel Works, adistance of about 5700 ft. In addition to this the company hasrenewed 4200 ft. of the old line, using 56-lb. T-rail for theentire distance of 9900 ft. The track construction consists ofthe above 56-lb. rail, 6-ft. x 8-in. x 8-in. burnetized ties, 2-ft.centers, and the usual span construction, using burnetized poles12-in. butt, 7-in. top. The span construction consists of 5-16-in. cable span wire with y2-m. x 10-in. eye-bolt, each span in-sulated by cutting in wood strain 12 ft. from each pole. Thetrolley is 00 and feeder 0000, all furnished by Roeblings SonsCompany, of Trenton, N. J. The General Railway SupplyCompany, of Pittsburg, furnished the caps, cones and ears,and also 10-in. concealed bonds for bonding of the track. Thecompany has also ordered 200 tons of 60-lb. T-rail and 30 tons
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VIEW OX CRAIGHALL road, showing curve and centerPOLE CONSTRUCTION resistance, circuit breaker, fuse, Garton lightning ar-rester and trolley earth indicator. The ordinary double-deck cars have eighteen 16-cp lights and the covered topcars 22-cp. The sprinkler and sweeper car is also shown. The tank hasa capacity of 1000 gals, of water. It has two GE 58 motorswith six-turn armatures, two B. T. H. B-18 controllers andthe other necessary B. T. H. equipment. It is fitted with tworevolving brooms, snow plow and sprinkler. The body andtruck was made by the United Electric Car Works, Preston,and the electrical equipment was supplied by the British Thom-son-Houston Company, Rugby. generalThe permanent way, overhead equipment and the car shedwere all constructed by the corporation. The permanent wayunder the superintendence of J. R. Findlay, burgh surveyor.The car shed work was supervised by George Simpson, burgharchitect, and the overhead equipment by A. Peden Ruther-ford, A. M. I. E. E., burg

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