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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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GENERAL VTEW OF ENGINE ROOM OF THE KARMOUS POWER PLANT
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THE SUB-STATION AT BULKELEY provision of automatic grounding forks, un-der each line wire upon both sides of eachinsulator; in this way if a high-voltage wirebreaks it drops into the fork, and is imme-diately grounded and rendered harmless. The important features of the trolley-lineoverhead construction may be seen from theaccompanying line views. The center polesare of steel, supplied with particularly heavybracket construction ; the method of erectingis well shown in one of the detail photographs.The size of trolley wire used is No. 000, andthe feed wires are Xo. 0000; all the trolleyand feed wire was supplied by Roeblings SonsCompany. The line material throughout, in-cluding line insulators, trolley frogs, breakers,etc., was supplied by the Ohio Brass Com-pany, of Mansfield, Ohio. CAR EQUIPMENT The car equipment consists of fifty first-class and fiftv second-class cars, all of which r The Bulkeley sub-station has a neat, white marble switch-board, furnished with a complete equipmen

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