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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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machine tools and a formerly openspace between two buildings, 30 ft. x 75 ft., is being roofedover for utilization by the shop department. At Monroe Park the Mobile Light & Railroad Companyis building a pier 1400 ft. out into Mobile Bay. The pierwill terminate in a promenade 150 ft. square. A combination car storage building and picnic pavilionhas recently been erected. The building, which is providedwith a concrete floor and latticed sides, is intended for thestorage of cars during the winter. During the park sea-son, however, it is utilized by club and Sunday school pic-nic parties, and it serves as a shelter in the event of showers.A new band stand and a refreshment stand have also beenbuilt. mo STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 25. THE OSKALOOSA-BEACON DIVISION OF THE OSKA- LOOSA-BUXTON ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, IOWA The interurban line between Oskaloosa and Buxton,la., has been completed and is being operated to Bea-con, a town of about 300 ))eopIe located 3 miles south
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ST.\NDARD CAR OF THE BUXTON ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY west of Oskaloosa. This short road has the distinction ofbeing the first road in Iowa built with catenary construc-tion. When the line is extended it is the intention to oper-ate it with alternating current from a power house in Oska-loosa. The ultimate terminal of the road, Buxton, is acoal-mining town of about 6000 people, 18 miles distantfrom Oskaloosa, and it is owned outright by the companyoperating the mines in the vicinity. The proposed road poles, 35 ft. long and spaced 100 ft. apart, carry only thebracket supporting the messenger. The poles are, how-ever, of sufficient height to carry the high-tension wires tobe installed when the line is extended. The trolley brack-ets are of angle iron with cast heads, into which the rodssupporting the end are screwed. The trolley is of No. 000grooved wire. It is placed 18 ft. above the rail and is sus-pended to the messen-ger at intervals of 10 ft.On curves the trolley isheld over the ce

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