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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ving already built three cable lines inSt. Louis, were familiar with the road and at once pro-ceeded with preparationsfor the work. The enterprisewas begun about May ist, on the street, and notwithstand- forty-two pounds per yard and the Johnson girder trackrails, weighing seventy-eight pounds per yard, are boltedwith three-quarter inch bolts. After these are bolted onand lined and surfaced, the conduit is formed between theyokes, with Portland cement concrete, in the usual wayused in the construction of first-class roads. The carryingsheaves on this line are filled with babbitt in the rim, mak-ing the cable run noiselessly. The bearings are babbittblocks, dropped loosely into cast iron boxes which arefilled with grease. These are keyed to cast iron frameswith bolts which are anchored to concrete blocks built intothe sides of the conduit. The curves on this line, fifty-fourin number, are all of large radius, two and three hundredfeet. The yokes for curves are heavier than for straight
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MAIN POWER STATION, BROADWAY CABLE LINE, ST. LOUIS. ing the difficulties generally met with in this class ofwork, the roadbed was practically completed on the 20thof September and the horse cars were back on the entireline on the 3d of October. This we believe is about thequickest time on record for cable construction East of theRocky Mountains. ROADWAY. The roadbed is built in about the same style and man-ner used in the construction of the well known OliveStreet line in St. Louis, by these same contractors, beingcomposed of a cast iron yoke, weighing about 370pounds, every four feet to which the slot rails, weighing track and the curve pulleys, twenty-two inches in diameterand three and a half inches deep, are fitted into wroughtiron frames which rest on brackets bolted directly to theyoke. These frames and pulleys are light and very con-venient, making it an easy matter to renew them whennecessary. Tiii.The grips used on this line are what is known as thebottom grip,

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