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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eneral attorney. Mr. Monro,in his opening statement, said that the Chicago & Milwaukeeroad was organized under the general railroad acts ofIllinois and Wisconsin, and was equipped to handle a generalfreight business. He stated that 2,000 carloads of cabbagewere shipped over the road in 1906 from Racine, Wis. Mr.Lee stated that the contention of the Illinois Central companywas that the shippers in the territory through which theChicago & Milwaukee road runs are already well served byexisting steam lines and had nothing to do with the questionof whether an electric line was a railroad within the meaningof the interstate commerce act. Charles W. Merrilies. traffic manager of the Chicago &Milwaukee road, told in detail of the traffic arrangementwith the steam roads. Asked why the electric line did notconsign, in its own cars, the cabbage, for the transportationof which it complained that the Illinois Central had failedto furnish cars, he replied that his road had but three box
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Concrete Trolley Arches—General Design of Catenary Suspension. between the arches, which will be spaced 650 feet apart, willbe placed two concrete poles to support the %-inch bridleguys, which are anchored to steel eye-bolts in the concrete.The trolley will be also braced by bridle guys and sway bracesanchored to the sides of the arches, as shown in the drawings.A %-inch steel cable will be used for the messenger wirewhich supports the No. 0000 trolley wire. The high-tensionwires, of No. i hard-drawn copper, are suspended on insulatorson the outside of the columns, as shown, spaced 36 inches be-tween centers at the points of suspension. The cost of one section of the above construction, readyfor wires, is $107, as compared with about $90 for the orrluwood pole construction, with bracket fixtures. The Philadelphia & Western Railroad was expected tobe openei for traffic from Philadelphia to Strafford. Pa., onFriday or Saturday of this week. cms and that it had relied upon the usua

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