. The Street railway journal . Y JOURNAL. 825 anent set of about 3 ins., in the bracket, the set appearing as abow upward between the end of the tie rod and the pole. In Test No. 3, the trolley was cut at approximately themiddle of the 350-ft. section. The trolley slacked a little andthe cut ends hung only a very few inches below the originalhorizontal position. • In Test No. 4, the trolley wire was first cut; then the cat-enary itself was cut at the dead-end stub. As the wire slackedoff, it wrenched the bracket on the first pole to a position 90degs. from its original position, snapping the c
. The Street railway journal . Y JOURNAL. 825 anent set of about 3 ins., in the bracket, the set appearing as abow upward between the end of the tie rod and the pole. In Test No. 3, the trolley was cut at approximately themiddle of the 350-ft. section. The trolley slacked a little andthe cut ends hung only a very few inches below the originalhorizontal position. • In Test No. 4, the trolley wire was first cut; then the cat-enary itself was cut at the dead-end stub. As the wire slackedoff, it wrenched the bracket on the first pole to a position 90degs. from its original position, snapping the casting on theunder brace at the time. The middle bracket acted in thesame manner, except that it did not turn the full 90 degs., norwas it in any way injured. The third bracket retained itsposition and also retained the catenary on the was no effect of torsion on the pole as the bracket wasfastened to it by means of a split collar, and this merely turned WASHINGTON WATER POWER COMPANYS SYSTEMAND NEW EQUIPMENT. RESULTS OF FINAL BREAKDOWN TESTS ON CATENARY ATREADING, PA. on the pole. The computed strain on the bracket, assumingthe weight of the structure as 2 lbs. per foot, was approxi-mately 5700 lbs. The entire catenary and trolley in the twofull spans lay on the ground at the end of this test. Among those present at the tests were the follovv^ing: W. , electrical engineer of the Oneida Railway Company;C. B. Marsh, assistant bridge engineer of the New YorkCentral & Hudson River Railroad; W. K. Archbold, of theArchbold-Brady Company; Charles H. Banghart, mastermechanic of the New York & Queens County Railway Com-pany; Elmer P. Morris, Robert Andrews, representing theElectric Railway Equipment Company; representatives of theCentral Railroad of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Railroad andReading Railway; and representatives of the technical press. *-^ The Central Electric Railway Association has adopted aresolution of regret at the sad and untimely death of Jose
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