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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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a hand travelchain and sprocket is provided, and this for the largestcapacities is fitted with double reducing gears so that the heaviest weights may lie moved w ith ease. The International Railway, of Buffalo, N. Y., recentlymade an installation of combination lighting and trolleypoles on the main street of the city of Niagara Falls undersomewhat unusual circumstances. The poles, which werepurchased by the city from the Electric Railway EquipmentCompany, of Cincinnati, are shown in the accompanyingillustration, and they are provided with slots below theground line so that if desired in the future the feeders nowcarried upon them may be placed in conduit below sidewalklevel. The material used in the pole construction is 7-in.,6-in. and 5-in. standard-weight tubing. The poles were installed in Falls Street in accordancewith a plan for lighting which had been under considera-tion in Niagara Falls for many years and which was crys-tallized by a comparatively recent offer of the Hydraulic
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Combination Lighting and Trolley Pole Power Company to furnish free electric current for thelighting system. Early last June the city asked E. G.Connette, president International Railway Company, if thetrolley poles could not be removed from the street in fur-therance of the plan. Mr. Connette consented not only toremove the trolley poles but to place the new poles for thecity and to transfer the trolley wires and feeders to themwithout charge. The work of installation was commencedlast August and was completed inside of three monthstime. The installation consists of 112 poles, each of which isequipped with a double bracket for supporting a pair ofG. E. inverted arc lamps of about 800 cp each. The poles arespaced at 70-ft. intervals, thus giving one of the best street-illuminating svstems in the countrv. In an attempt to operate a spare steam turbo-alternatoras a synchronous motor to improve the power factor careshould be taken to see that the best possible vacuum ismaintained at all

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