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Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
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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olid joint. The lug to which the con-ductor rail is liolted is fastened on the insulator bolt betweentwo nuts, which give it an opportunity to be raised or low-ered and the hole in the lug through which the insulatorbolt passes is made oblong so that the space between theconductor rails can be adjusted. The conductor rails areT-shaped, 22 ft. long, and are fastened to the insulators at FIG.13-SWITCHBOARI), 4U ST. STATIiN. .coldered. With the new soldered terminal no trouble hasbeen experienced. The conduit and track construction was all done by Mr.E. Saxton who has laid all the undergroun<l conduit for thestreet railways of Washington. The character of Mr. Sax-tons work is widely and favorably known, and ranks himamong the best constructing engineers in the country. Thesuccess which has attended all of his work as a street railwaycontractor is very flattering indeed. The Metropolitan road is the only one of the consolidated F^ -«4^ ■ -*K- ts^ r^ • ei- ¥^^^^._r^^ \ 1 jntf^^ii^
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FIG. 14—CROSS SECTION OF METROPOLITAN ROADBED AT MAX HOLE. the ends and in the center. The plow is about 2 ft. long. 8in. wide, and just thick enough to pass along the slot. Twoshoes at the bottom of the plow press out sideways betweenthe conductor rails. The frame of the plow is made of thinsteel bars and it is provided with two pairs of leads, onepair with fuses in circuit and the other pair without them.The fused leads are generally used, but in case the fusesblow the other pair of leads are connected to the car tem-porarily to bring it home to the barn. roads that is completely equipped and in full running order,all of the other roads being in various stages of reconstruc-tion. During the National Peace Jubilee, celebrated inWashington for three days last month, the MetropolitanCo. decorated two trains of cars very handsomely in honorof the army and the navy. The ceilings of the cars werecompletely covered by rows of red, white and blue bunting,radiating out from clusters of inc

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