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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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Philadelphia & Western—Interior View of Rotary Converter *Substation. Philadelphia & Western—Detail Dimensions of Pole—TopConstruction. 7 feet, while still lower are located arms for telephone andsignal wires. An interesting feature is found in connectionwith the protection afforded highway crossings from possibledamage by the high-tension wires. On each side of everyhighway crossing two poles are set in concrete, as previ-ously described, and the copper wire between these doublesets of poles is tied at every 6 feet to a steel wire of high in width. The bays used for the storage and pit purposesare unobstructed save by a single line of columns down themiddle, spaced 15 feet 9 inches apart. The general construc-tion of the pits is shown in one of the accompanying engrav-ings. A passageway affords connection between adjacentpits. The pits are entirely of concrete, the rails being sup-ported on I-beams which are covered with concrete. The Jlffci I m
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n 1~m ■ttm+m -frttt-mi -htrt+rH Philadelphia & Western—Details of Reinforcement in Concrete Car House and Shops. tensile strength. The same construction is employed at otherplaces where it is necessary to carry the high-tension trans-mission lines over foreign wires. Car Houses and Shops. The building devoted to car barns and shops is locateda short distance west of the union station. The building isentirely of concrete construction and is subdivided into threebays, two of which afford pit and storage facilities, while theOther is subdivided Into a machine shop with two pits, paint capacity of the barn is 24 cars, which embraces the presentequipment. All cars are provided with a bow trolley for usewhen in the barn. All wires for lighting purposes are carried in pipes withswitches at convenient points for turning on the current bysections, and the pits are lighted by incandescent lampsplaced 5 feet apart, staggered. Provision is made for future extension of the building.The rei

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