. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2. -SECTION OF PULLEYS—SPOOL ROOM OF CHICAGOCITY RAILWAY FIG. 1.—PLAN OF CABLE SPOOL ROOM—CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY by a reference to, and description of the system used bythe Chicago City Railway Company. Robt. J. Hill,chiefengineer, is outspoken iri favor of the reel system, andfinds that he can reel all his cables, both old and new, tothe best advantage, and with the least expense. There are in use on the lines of the Chicago CityRailway Company ten cables, having a total length of203,751 ft., and a total weight, when new, of 300 tons. Itis necessary to h
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2. -SECTION OF PULLEYS—SPOOL ROOM OF CHICAGOCITY RAILWAY FIG. 1.—PLAN OF CABLE SPOOL ROOM—CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY by a reference to, and description of the system used bythe Chicago City Railway Company. Robt. J. Hill,chiefengineer, is outspoken iri favor of the reel system, andfinds that he can reel all his cables, both old and new, tothe best advantage, and with the least expense. There are in use on the lines of the Chicago CityRailway Company ten cables, having a total length of203,751 ft., and a total weight, when new, of 300 tons. Itis necessary to handle every foot of this cable four times:From the cars to the place from which the cables are putinto service; from this place into service; removing fromservice; and lastly, the final disposition to the junkdealers. The average length of the cables used is about 2p,ooo The place in which the cables are mounted ready tobe put into service, called the spool room, isshown in Fig. 1,which is a plan of the spool room at the 21st and StateStreets power station. Four of the ten cables in use a
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