. The Street railway journal . s,.seriously obstructed the work of erecting heavy poles. It was in a great many cases to cut through these balconies to secvirethe proper location of poles. On the Orleans Railroad the .specifications required double in-sulation throughout. In the .span wire on iron poles, apole clamp and insulated turnbuckle was attached to each pole for 196 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 3. the support and adjustment of the span wire. At feeder spans adouble insulated turnbuckle was used at each end. This feeder spanwas a heavy insulated steel
. The Street railway journal . s,.seriously obstructed the work of erecting heavy poles. It was in a great many cases to cut through these balconies to secvirethe proper location of poles. On the Orleans Railroad the .specifications required double in-sulation throughout. In the .span wire on iron poles, apole clamp and insulated turnbuckle was attached to each pole for 196 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 3. the support and adjustment of the span wire. At feeder spans adouble insulated turnbuckle was used at each end. This feeder spanwas a heavy insulated steel cable soldered to the feeder wire at oneend and to a solid bronze ball in the center of the span. This bronzeball is made the same shape as the line insulators and connects totrolley ear by heavy stud bolt, thus completing feeder connection The Works of the Brooklyn & New YorkRailway Supply Company. Announcement was made in our January issue of the organiza-tion of a new company, the Brooklyn & New York Railway Supply. THE WORKS OF THE BROOKLYN & NEW YORK RAILWAY SUPPLY CO. with the trolley wire. On the wood pole constriiction, a galvanizedeye bolt with a Bovirbon No. 2 strain insulator is used on each poleto support the feeder span wire. The road is divided into sections bymeans of section insulators and a system of feeders reaches eachdivision. The system is protected throughout by means of Wurts light-ning arresters, and there was no difficulty in securing a wet groundconnection for them in New Orleans soil. It is interesting to note that the St. Charles Street Railway Com-panj has just completed two miles of flexible pole bracket construc-
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