. Electric railway journal . Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-Bar Construction Alongside the Brooklyn Bridge June ii, 1910.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1019 devices have given a life exceeding 10 months over the mostheavily traveled tracks in Brooklyn. At street intersections itis the practice to put bar section insulators into the trough workto avoid having insulated crossings or section breakers in thetrolley wire. The bar method gives a more durable andreliable means of insulating the intersecting principle of the bar section insulator construction has. Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-B
. Electric railway journal . Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-Bar Construction Alongside the Brooklyn Bridge June ii, 1910.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1019 devices have given a life exceeding 10 months over the mostheavily traveled tracks in Brooklyn. At street intersections itis the practice to put bar section insulators into the trough workto avoid having insulated crossings or section breakers in thetrolley wire. The bar method gives a more durable andreliable means of insulating the intersecting principle of the bar section insulator construction has. Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-Bar Work at Concordand Adams Streets been applied to the circuit-breakers of the electric automatictrack switches operated by. the company. These circuit-break-ers have been found to last longer than the original designsfurnished by the track switch manufacturers. Side-feed taps are made into the conductor bar by means of thethe brass casting shown in one of the detail drawings. Thisbrass casting has two bolts for the connection to the bar. It isdrilled in the upper part to receive a sleeve, into which the cop-per feed wire is wedged and soldered and then held in place bythe set screws in the brass casting. TYPICAL INSTALLATIONS Several interesting views are presented in the accompanying
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