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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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er the center span has a pole seton a revolving center, so that while the bridge revolves, thepole remains stationary. A pile trestle about 1200 ft. long isillustrated. It will be noted that on the trestles a double set oftrolley poles are used and the trolley wire is suspended from across timber which is braced on either side, making a verystrong structure. The overhead crossing near Port Clinton isS-shaped, with trestle approaches, with two spans, one athrough truss 153 ft. long over the Lake Shore & MichiganSouthern tracks and the other 66 ft. long over the companyspower house track, a riveted half-deck truss. ROLLING STOCKThe original rolling stock consisted of four 50-ft. cars, con-taining passenger and smoking compartments, built by theKuhlman Car Company. These were described and illustratedin this paper some months ago. They are unusually wide foran interurban car, and have wide, comfortable seats, but it isdifficult for two of them to pass on city streets, so the new cars
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A LONG TRESTLE AND FILL ALONG THE LINE OF THE TOLEDO, PORT CLINTON & LAKESIDE RAILWAY was built with span construction and a double line of poles setwith a decided rake. On the newer portion it was decided toadopt the side-arm construction, as the limestone formationnecessitated drilling and blasting in setting poles. On portionsof the line the cost averaged $4 per hole. The brackets areOhio Brass Companys Richmond type, 9-ft. 2-in. pipe withflexible suspension. Garton lightning arresters are placed onpoles, three to the mile, and grounded to a metal plate sur-rounded by charcoal. Two 0000 trolley wires are used, and a0000 feeder extends the full length of the line. The three-phase recently received from the Niles Car & Manufacturing Com-pany were made narrower. There are four of these, 51 ft.long and 8 ft. 8 ins. wide over all. Two have passenger andsmoking compartments, and the others are three-compartmentcars, there being a 9-ft. baggage compartment continuous withthe front

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