. The Street railway journal . ole isinitially more expensive, but a fewer number of poles arerequired and there is no maintenance expense. There isalso an increased safety from wind pressure. The concretestructure has carried lines during a 60-mile gale underwhich a wooden line would have been demoralized. The accompanying illustration shows a 30-ft. span polein St. Catharines, and is one of some eighty poles of thatsize that have been in use for some time. They haveproved so successful that the local company has placed anorder for additional concrete poles. The city of Torontohas also some t
. The Street railway journal . ole isinitially more expensive, but a fewer number of poles arerequired and there is no maintenance expense. There isalso an increased safety from wind pressure. The concretestructure has carried lines during a 60-mile gale underwhich a wooden line would have been demoralized. The accompanying illustration shows a 30-ft. span polein St. Catharines, and is one of some eighty poles of thatsize that have been in use for some time. They haveproved so successful that the local company has placed anorder for additional concrete poles. The city of Torontohas also some ten concrete poles which have been in usefor three years, as an experiment. The Windsor, Essex& Lake Shore road, of Windsor, Ont., has ordered onehundred concrete poles for use this coming season. 836 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 19. ELECTRIC TRAVELING CRANES AT COLD SPRINGSCAR HOUSE, BUFFALO The installation of electric traveling cranes for lifting carbodies, trucks, etc., in the shops of the International Rail-. cranes is approximately 3 ft. above the runway rail. Thecranes take current from the regular overhead track wiresabove the pit, these wires being supplemented by a groundwire for the crane. Thomas Pumfrey planned the in-stallation for the International Railway Company, and theequipment was installed by the Northern EngineeringWorks, of Detroit, Mich. ♦♦-» MORE SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR FITCHBURG &LEOMINSTER RAILWAY The Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway Companyhas lately added to its rolling stock four Brill groovelesspost, semi-convertible cars to be used for general trafficbetween Ayer and Fitchburg. It was in the fall of 1902that this road purchased its first Brill semi-convertible;in fact, the car was the first of the type to corne into theState, and the chief reasons for its continued use, as set forth
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