. Electric railway journal . Electric Ry. Journal Standard 102-lb. Section December ii, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1177 jumper cables were installed around 33 pieces of specialwork; 230 pieces of rail were cut in where joints were sobad as to make it necessary to cut out the joint entirelyand substitute a piece of new rail. All special work of thesystem as a whole was gone over thoroughly, renewedwhere necessary and put in good operating condition. LINE IMPROVEMENTS Coincident with the track improvements, the company THE WIESENTAL SINGLE-PHASE RAILWAY IN BADEN,GERMANY. Coney Island & Bro
. Electric railway journal . Electric Ry. Journal Standard 102-lb. Section December ii, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1177 jumper cables were installed around 33 pieces of specialwork; 230 pieces of rail were cut in where joints were sobad as to make it necessary to cut out the joint entirelyand substitute a piece of new rail. All special work of thesystem as a whole was gone over thoroughly, renewedwhere necessary and put in good operating condition. LINE IMPROVEMENTS Coincident with the track improvements, the company THE WIESENTAL SINGLE-PHASE RAILWAY IN BADEN,GERMANY. Coney Island & Brooklyn Track Improvements—Construction at DeKalb and Hamburg Avenues began the thorough overhauling of its overhead lines, in-cluding the placing of feeders underground in certain dis-tricts. In all miles of trolley wire or about 32J/2 percent of the entire system were renewed with phono-electricwire, which is expected to wear from five to six years andhave less breaks than hard-drawn copper. The sections re-newed were made up of the following lengths and wiregages: miles with No. 0; miles of No. 00, re-placing No. 0; miles of No. 0000, replacing No. large portion of the span wires was found badly rusted,thus requiring the installation of miles of 5/16-in. gal-vanized iron wire. Practically all of the overhead special L—1—0 The Wiesental Railway, owned by the Grand Duchy ofHaden, Germany, has recently been electrified for 10,000-volt, 15-cycle, single-phase operation. The main line ex-tends from Basel to Schopfheim, miles
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