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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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ts in electrifying thecut-off, and the lessons here learnedwill be applied in the work of electri-fying the West Shore tracks fromUtica west to Syracuse, which workis already under way. On the cut-off the trolley is 0000grooved copper wire suspended froma catenary, which consists of 9-32-in.extra high strength steel cable cov-ered with weatherproof insulation toprotect the cable from deteriorationcaused by locomotive gases. The hang-ers or spreaders between the trolleywire and the catenary are placed 10 ft.apart, and consist in each case of aj/2-in. iron pipe flattened at the top tobolt between the lips of a strap clip at-tached to the catenary and threadedat the bottom into the boss of a bronzeclip attached to the trolley wire. Thebronze clip on the trolley wire is heldtogether by four screws, and the en-tire clip is 5 ins. long. The poles are Southern white cedar,and the catenary is carried on side brackets made of extraheavy 2-in. iron pipe. The line is put up with large insulating
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ELECTRIFIED SECTION, WEST SHORE RAILROAD. LOOKING TOWARD ILION STATION. THIS SECTION IS TO BE USEDJOINTLY BY STEAM TRAINS AND ELECTRIC CARS OF UTICA & MOHAWK VALLEY RAILWAY . December 16, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1065 collars slipped over the bracket arm to receive the catenary,this having been designed to facilitate the use of a higher volt-age a. c. trolley at some future time. The whole overheadconstruction, including the clips, spreaders, catenary and arms,with the exception of the trolley wire, has been painted withgraphite paint in order to give protection against locomotivegases. By demonstration it has been found the gases have nodeteriorating effect upon the trolley wire, but the gases do havea tendency to attack unpainted iron or steel. The type of over-head catenary construction used is shown in the accompanyingillustration. The poles are spaced 80 ft., and the wires are drawn a little MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE STREET RAILWAYASSOCIATION R. E. Danforth, of Roch

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