. The Street railway journal . e double overhead trolleysystem be installed. The two trolley wires erected overeach track, one for each side of the circuit, are 18 ins. centercenter, the trolley wire being of hard drawn copper ins. in diameter. The trolleywires are supported from the spanwire by double curve insulators com-posed of a malleable iron body, screwcap and cone insulators and bronzeear, the ears being securely solderedto the trolley wire. The poles are be-ing supplied by the Electric RailwayEquipment Company, and the over-head material by the A. & J. M. An-derson Manufactur
. The Street railway journal . e double overhead trolleysystem be installed. The two trolley wires erected overeach track, one for each side of the circuit, are 18 ins. centercenter, the trolley wire being of hard drawn copper ins. in diameter. The trolleywires are supported from the spanwire by double curve insulators com-posed of a malleable iron body, screwcap and cone insulators and bronzeear, the ears being securely solderedto the trolley wire. The poles are be-ing supplied by the Electric RailwayEquipment Company, and the over-head material by the A. & J. M. An-derson Manufacturing Company. Allfeeder wires will be laid beneath thesurface of roadway in ducts made ofPotomac terra cotta. The feeders con-sist of 1,000,000-circ. mil and 500,000-circ. mil cables. All feeders were sup-plied by W. R. Brixey. The power-station equipment con-sists of three vertical cross compoundcondensing engines with 48-in. stroke,high-pressure cylinder 23 ins. in di-ameter, low-pressure cylinder 60 ins. in diameter. The.
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