. The Street railway journal . ting under large overloads. ROAD AND LINE WORK The road being on private right of way, the roadbedwas built similar to steam road practice, being ditched on 266 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV. No. 5. each side and gravel ballasted. The ties are of 6-in. x 8-ft. oak, spaced 24 ins. on centers. The rails are S. C. E. standard, with suspended joints and standardfour-bolt splice bars. The sidings are 1500 ft. long, withcombination spring and throw switches, supplied by theCleveland Frog & Crossing Company, and fitted withregular steam railroad night
. The Street railway journal . ting under large overloads. ROAD AND LINE WORK The road being on private right of way, the roadbedwas built similar to steam road practice, being ditched on 266 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV. No. 5. each side and gravel ballasted. The ties are of 6-in. x 8-ft. oak, spaced 24 ins. on centers. The rails are S. C. E. standard, with suspended joints and standardfour-bolt splice bars. The sidings are 1500 ft. long, withcombination spring and throw switches, supplied by theCleveland Frog & Crossing Company, and fitted withregular steam railroad night and day signals. Thecurves into these sidings are very easy, so that the carsrun into the switches and out again at nearly full speed,with very little swaying. The overhead material is veryheavy in all its parts. The poles are 30 ft. 7 ins. in height,with all poles on curves trussed to an anchor behind them,and all poles are braced with a 4-in. x 6-in. x 8-ft. braceplaced against the pole about 4 ft. above the ground, and. EXTERIOR OF POWER STATION the other end against a 4-ft. stake driven with a has been found necessary, as the two No. 000 trolleyssuspended over the track make a very heavy load on thecross suspension. It was found almost impossible to keepthe poles from springing in without this additional brace,but by means of it the line has gone through an excep-tionally hard winter and the soft weather of the springwith very few repairs. The line extends 12 miles ea-jt from the power houseand 6i miles west. The feeders are all of 300,000 cm.,one going 11 miles east, one 10 miles and one 9 miles; andone going 2 miles west, and one 5 miles. By using thedouble trolley all overhead switches are avoided, so thatthe. cars enter and leave the turnouts without danger of thetrolley leaving the wire. In this connection it is interesting to note that on ac-count of the high speeds and large current taken from thewire the tension of the trolley against the wire has b
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