. Electric railway journal . ree rotation of the insula-tor. While the wire is being pulled up the drag againstthe side of the insulator will cause it to rotate, but asit has no threaded connection with the pin, it does notmove up or down or present much friction to the dragof the wire. After pulling up is completed, the capis screwed against the washer and the wire is tied. The insulator is being manufactured by the Albert& J. M. Anderson Manufacturing Company of SouthBoston, Mass. About 200 are in service on the Massa-chusetts Northeastern Street Railway, which has beengiving the design a tw
. Electric railway journal . ree rotation of the insula-tor. While the wire is being pulled up the drag againstthe side of the insulator will cause it to rotate, but asit has no threaded connection with the pin, it does notmove up or down or present much friction to the dragof the wire. After pulling up is completed, the capis screwed against the washer and the wire is tied. The insulator is being manufactured by the Albert& J. M. Anderson Manufacturing Company of SouthBoston, Mass. About 200 are in service on the Massa-chusetts Northeastern Street Railway, which has beengiving the design a two years test. Grinding New and Old Rail atWorcester, Mass. One of the rail-grinding machines of the RailwayTrackwork Company, Philadelphia, has recently beenin service on the Worcester (Mass.) Consolidated StreetRailway, as illustrated. In thirty days about mileof double track has been gone over with this machine,the work including the grinding down of joints andcups and the removal of corrugations on straight TRACK GRINDER AT WORK IN WORCESTER, MASS. The maximum depth of corrugation is from % in. to3/16 in., and about three hours are required to grinddown Ys in. Incipient low joints are also smootheddown with this equipment, and all the track recentlybuilt between Lincoln Square and Chandler Street, onMain Street, has been gone over at the joints, to insurethe best results in service. Most of the work is doneat night. The accompanying illustration was obtainedwith great difficulty on account of the density of trafficin the district where the view was taken. It is reported that a company of Chinese and Rus-sian capitalists has been organized under the name ofEnergia, which plans to undertake the constructionof a street railway system and power plant for Harbin,China. In a statement to the Municipal Council thecompany proposes that a joint stock company be organ-ized and that the municipality be permitted to partici-pate on the condition that a proper franchise be gr
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