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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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Am sters. Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters. Arresters.Arresters.Arresters. Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters.Arresters. I Fuse arresters in power house, sub-> stations and other points where therej is competent attendance. * Union Traction Company of Indiana and Indianapolis Northern Traction Company only considered same arrangements. The Lake Shore Electric has all No. 2,in order to render it possible to run all the sub-stations from onepower house if necessary, necessitating a transmission of about1 00 miles. The Fort Wayne, Van Wert & Lima has No. 2throughout, and there seems to be a tendency among other roads medium voltages of from 1 2,000 to 1 6,500, but the roads usingthe higher voltages of from 20,000 to 33,000 seem to preferporcelain insulators, the usual size being 7 ins. The LakeShore Electric, with 16,500, uses 7-in. glass with most satis-factory results, while the Cleveland & Southwestern has a num-
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TYPES OF STANDARD OVERHEAD AND TRACK CONSTRUCTION 658 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIII. No. 15. ber of stretches of 8-in. glass insulators, which are giving ex-cellent service. The Toledo Urban & Interurban and the Cin-cinnati & Columbus, with their 33,000-volt transmission lines,use 8-in. x 8-in. porcelain insulators designed for 90,000 volts,and the tendency is in this direction. Considerable interest is being displayed in high-tension light-ning arresters placed on poles, but as yet they have not beenadopted by any of the roads in the district. The Detroit, Mon-roe & Toledo and Toledo Urban & Interurban string a gal-vanized iron barbed wire at the top of the pole and ground itat every tenth pole, which is said to be an excellent protectionagainst lightning. Other engineers who have considered thisscheme say that while it may be some protection, the compara-tively short life of galvanized iron wire, as compared with copperwire, is likely to cause a great deal of

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