. The Street railway journal . ends. I have referenceto the Blackpool system or Blackpool conduit, which is operated inBlackpool, England, to-day. The conduit is exceedingly small, andthe two wires are supported nearly directly below the slot, yet as I say,the conduit is in daily operation. The next system to be described is the far famed Siemens-Halskesystem, which is being operated to day at Buda-Pesth. The conduit isa peculiar one. It is located directly beneath the rail. The car wheelis very dissimilar from that used in this country. It is a central flangeone, the flange running between th
. The Street railway journal . ends. I have referenceto the Blackpool system or Blackpool conduit, which is operated inBlackpool, England, to-day. The conduit is exceedingly small, andthe two wires are supported nearly directly below the slot, yet as I say,the conduit is in daily operation. The next system to be described is the far famed Siemens-Halskesystem, which is being operated to day at Buda-Pesth. The conduit isa peculiar one. It is located directly beneath the rail. The car wheelis very dissimilar from that used in this country. It is a central flangeone, the flange running between the two rails, the object being to keepthe slot open at all times. Two wires are used, one each side of theslot, and the whole space around the conduit is filled up and protectedby cement. Strange to say, this conduit has been in daily operation,since 1889; dividends are paid by the road, and sixty cars are operat-ing on six miles of double track. But I doubt very much whether aconduit of that size would operate in this SIEMENS SURFACE CONTACT THE ZELL SYSTEM. SYSTEM. Now we come to the latest addition to open slot conduits, whichis proving more or less successful. I have reference to what is calledthe Love conduit. The yoke is a construction adopted at Chicago,where this system was first introduced. You see the promoters of thissystem had a better idea of the problem to be solved. We have herea large conduit and the wire placed high and dry; and furthermore,about the most important thing of the system is that the wire is ac-cessible by placing above the wire a detachable slot rail or cover whichcan be raised at any time, so that the wire can be inspected. But ap-parently it did not prove satisfactory for some reason or other, andwhen the same system was introduced in Washington, they adoptedanother form of construction. One reason, no doubt, was that a cheapconduit was wanted, which seemed to be the underlying principle ofthis whole matter, and for that reason the heav
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