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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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un, preferably about every 4 hours. A half-hour intervalis sufficient to make a very good general inspection of thecar. Sometimes it happens that the time of arrival at a ter-minal necessitates such a layover, and again it might be nec-essary to add one car to the schedule in order to permit of acar being laid over a sufficient time to make inspections. Itmay happen, too, that a layover of less than an hour cannotbe made. In such an instance, it might be well to add to theduties of the motorman and require him to replace trolleywheels, adjust brakes, repair controllers and do all the ordi-nary repair work on the car with the exception of changingarmatures and bearings and doing such work as requiresspecial apparatus. .^p- 936 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIL Xo. 24. THE POWER TRANSMISSION LINE AND THIRD-RAILSYSTEM OF THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD-II BY W. N. SMITH CABLESThe transmission cables are of 250,000 circ. mil strandedcopper, and are fastened to the insulators with ties of No. 6
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FIG. 18.—STKINGING CABLE ON JAMAICA BAY TRESTLE copper wire, 3 ft. long. Splices were made b) cutting backthe core of the cable and wrapping the outer layers of strandsaround the abutting cables, after the manner of the ordinaryWestern Union splice. All the joints were soldered. Wherejumpers were used to lead into sub-stations or arrester houses,the ordinary half-connection joint was made and carefullysoldered. The cables were strung for the most part by meansof teams of horses and running lines of 1000 ft. or more inlength, the cable reels being mounted on stationary stands. On the trestle, however, this method could not be so read-ily followed, and the cables were strung in the followingmanner: The reel of wire was carried on a flat car uponwhich was carried a boom, capable of being swung to one sideto the position which would be occupied by the wires. Atthe end of this boom was a snatch block, through which thewire passed and by which it was guided on the cross-arm.The car was mo

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