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Identifier: streetrailwayj261905newy (find matches)
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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PHONE SYSTEM The company operates and maintains its own private telephonesystem, but rents the telephone switchboard and all the instru-ments from the Keystone Telephone Company. Its private ex-change comprises a two-section switchboard, with which is con-nected about 300 private instruments, covering the entire system,including all departments, car houses, power houses, storerooms,shops, outlying offices, parks, and about 1 00 street pole boxes dis-tributed at various points. The companys central board has tentrunk lines to the central exchange of the Keystone TelephoneCompany, and there are ten independent trunk lines for emer-gency use. There is a separate telephone board known asthe emergency despatchers desk, to which all emergency calls Dickinson St. Mifflin St. 1 j i 17113= 850000 C.M.-1732=* 750000 CM.-1712 = 1000000 C.M.- 1709 = 750000 C.M.- McKean St. 1732 ENTERS STA.VIA MOLE A jjj 1506 SEE 50-90 Snyder Ave. f ifte ENTERS STA.VIA HOLE = B50000 CM- ^ 17j18 ENTER Dickinson St.
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Snyder. Ave. t st muni § I * Slreet.Ry. Journal SAMPLE SHEET SHOWING METHOD OF KEEPING RECORDS OF FEEDERS moisture from getting at the pole proper, so that any corrosionthat may take place in the future will be on the outside of the rein-forced sleeve, and not on the pole. A gang for doing this work has been organized, and approxi-mately l 0,000 poles have been reinforced in this way during thepast year. To expedite the work, a wagon has been rigged up formixing the concrete cement used around the base of the poles. I he are transmitted. 1 here are about 60 miles of underground tele-phone cables, which are carried in the companys own undergroundducts. The street pole telephone sets are enclosed in cast-ironboxes fastened to the poles at important street intersections. Streetsuperintendents are provided with keys for these boxes, and keepin touch with the emergency despatches as to the location of anytrouble which may be occurring. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POWER ON THEPHILADELPH

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