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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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Devices.All but two of the grade crossings with steam railroads are pro-tected by hand-operated derail switches. At these two, Granvillecrossing near Muncie, and a crossing at the Montpelier sub-station,half-interlocking systems are installed. These were put in bythe Pneumatic Signal Co., of Chicago, and are as follows: Derail-ing switches are placed in the electric railway tracks and semaphoresignals on the steam railroad 500 ft. from the crossing, both derailsand semaphores being actuated by levers in a tower so located asto give a clear view of the tracks. Track circuits on the steam Dec. 20. 1903.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. .943 road extend for 2,000 ft. in each direction with connections at thetower so that a train within the track circuit sections locks the op-erating levers. When an electric car reaches the crossjng the de- Bridges,rhere are several bridges on the line, the principal ones being athrough truss bridge with spans of 128 ft. and 104 ft. over the Mis- l-_S - .— //-tf
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PLAN AND ELEVATION OF POWER HOUSE MACHINERY, MUNCME, HARTFORD & FT. WAYNE RY rail is open; the conductor goes to the signal lower and (the steamroad being clear) throws the lever setting semaphore signalsagainst steam trains, and then the lever closing the derails in the 1^ m £^•3^ P^ HWITI.IIBOARD. MUNCIE. HARTFORD A IT WAYNK RY electric track. The movemem of Iheje levers locks the door ofihc tower «o that the conductor cannot leave until (he levers havebeen restored to their normal poiilion. sissinewa at Eaton; through truss with two 104-ft. spans over tJieWhite River near Muncic; two 80-fl. deck girder spans near Mont-pelier; a 7S-ft. through girder near Hartford; and an overheadcrossing with the L. E. & W. at Eaton, this last having two 40-ft.deck and one so-ft. through girder spans. ihe bridges along the line are designed for a loading of 3,000lb. per lineal foot, and also for the concentrated loads of 40-toncars. The piers and abutments for these bridges are concrete

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