. The Street railway journal . PLAN AND SECTION OF POWER STATION—DETROIT, YPSILANTI & ANN ARBOR RAILWAY is universal to use two trolley wires on all the single-trackroads to avoid frogs, which have been found undesirablewhen running at high speeds. These trolley wires are con-nected together electrically at intervals of every five or tenpoles, so that they reinforce each other and reduce by theamount of their cross sections the amount of feeder re-quired. The two latest roads built employ No. 00 Fig. 8trolley wire, equipped with Ohio Brass Company appli- diagrammatically above. This distributi
. The Street railway journal . PLAN AND SECTION OF POWER STATION—DETROIT, YPSILANTI & ANN ARBOR RAILWAY is universal to use two trolley wires on all the single-trackroads to avoid frogs, which have been found undesirablewhen running at high speeds. These trolley wires are con-nected together electrically at intervals of every five or tenpoles, so that they reinforce each other and reduce by theamount of their cross sections the amount of feeder re-quired. The two latest roads built employ No. 00 Fig. 8trolley wire, equipped with Ohio Brass Company appli- diagrammatically above. This distribution is based ona service of six cars, each of which takes on an averageabout 150 amps, when running at 30 miles per hour on alevel. Quite a little difference exists in the use of trolley Lakeshore cars are fitted with two trolleys, one im-mediately in the rear of the other, but the two are usedonly in the case of heavy loads. The wheel has a diameter January, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 5 of 6 ins., with a g
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