. Electric railway journal . •~1. Utah Light & Railway—Standard Roadbed in AsphaltPavement of the steel poles within the commercial district. A lead ringis poured around the tops of these bases to provide a tight con-nection. These cast-iron pole bases were required by the of the business district the center-bracket poles arebeing replaced with wooden poles painted green. As the new tracks are laid throughout the city this pole re-construction is completed and the existing No. 2 and No. 4copper trolley wires heretofore used are replaced with No. 00round wire supported by 5-16-in.
. Electric railway journal . •~1. Utah Light & Railway—Standard Roadbed in AsphaltPavement of the steel poles within the commercial district. A lead ringis poured around the tops of these bases to provide a tight con-nection. These cast-iron pole bases were required by the of the business district the center-bracket poles arebeing replaced with wooden poles painted green. As the new tracks are laid throughout the city this pole re-construction is completed and the existing No. 2 and No. 4copper trolley wires heretofore used are replaced with No. 00round wire supported by 5-16-in. stranded steel spans. Thesespans are insulated at the steel poles with Brooklyn insulatorsand at the wooden poles with 8-in. wood breaks. The trolleywire is connected to the span by the use of Ohio Brass, Gen-eral Electric or H. W. Johns-Manville insulated hangers. The removal of practically all transmission wires in the bus-iness district of Salt Lake City necessitated placing the railwayfeeders underground. The new feeder
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