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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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present, while of overhead trolley 15 miles areactually in progress, with 35 miles projected. In connection with New York, it is exceedingly important topoint out, that while there is a large amount of trackage oper-ated by conduit trolley, the spirit of uniformity has been strictlymaintained, and this system is confined solely to ManhattanIsland. There is no effort on the part of the company to intro-duce the use of overhead wires in the district now covered bythe conduit lines; and the horse lines which are confined tothat same territory are gradually being reconstructed to con-duit operation, except on those streets located near the water 14 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 1. front, where high tides would be apt to flood the conduits andthus prevent electrical operation. In like manner, in the dis-tricts where the overhead trolley is the sole method of opera-tion, no effort is made to make a change. Although the useof the overhead wire is generally prohibited on Manhattan
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STREET IN DARMSTADT, SHOWING METHOD OP ATTACHINGTROLLEY WIRES TO BUILDINGS Island, this prohibition is elastic and does not extend to pre-vent the overhead trolley cars from the borough of the Bronxcrossing the Harlem River and going to their points of destina-tion in the upper part of Manhattan Island, nor to prevent thetrolley cars of Brooklyn from crossing the bridges over theEast River. OBJECTIONS TO THE CONDUIT With the exception of Washington and New York, no othercity makes any use of conduit operation, and for two reasons:First, its adoption as part of a going system of railroads meansthe introduction of a new factor in operation and a breaking ofuniformity; second, the operation of the conduit is known tobe both expensive and as involving the possibility of annoy-ance and delay not present with the overhead trolley. Theconduit slot is easily blocked by extraneous substances orflooded by water. Pieces of hoop iron may fall through theslot and by making short circuits cause not

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