. The Street railway journal . IIG. 4.—SETTING POLE IN PLACE AT RVE of transmission beyond the disconnected section. The no-volt circuit is controlled from a pane! in the regular signaltower (adjacent to the anchor bridge), thus it is possiblefor the signal operator to stop any train on any sectionwhen emergency may require. Thus, should a locomotive. FIG. 2.—VIEW FROM THE NEW ROCHELLE ANCHOR BRIDGE NO. 72, LOOKING EAST vided for controlling each sectionalizing switch. At eachanchor bridge there is arranged a complete encircling busto which can be connected the feeders, and to which eachsectio
. The Street railway journal . IIG. 4.—SETTING POLE IN PLACE AT RVE of transmission beyond the disconnected section. The no-volt circuit is controlled from a pane! in the regular signaltower (adjacent to the anchor bridge), thus it is possiblefor the signal operator to stop any train on any sectionwhen emergency may require. Thus, should a locomotive. FIG. 2.—VIEW FROM THE NEW ROCHELLE ANCHOR BRIDGE NO. 72, LOOKING EAST vided for controlling each sectionalizing switch. At eachanchor bridge there is arranged a complete encircling busto which can be connected the feeders, and to which eachsection of the overhead work is normally joined. When sodesired the track switches may be opened at two adjacent engineer diso1:)ey the operators signal, by joint action withthe adjacent tower, voltage is removed from the tracks ofthe offending engineer. This train would then come to astandstill. No. 4-0 wire is used for the contact conductor; the feed- 54S STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 13. ers, however, are of No. 2-0 wire. The larger size wasused for the contact conductor on account of the requiredmechanical strength and not because so great a conductivitywas needed. A delta-formed catenary structure serves tosupport the contact conductor. The main support is pro-vided by two 9-16-in. steel cables to which the copper con- STEEL TOWER A
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