. Electric railway journal . Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-Bars and Troughs atConcord and Adams Streets. Brooklyn Line Department—Bar-Iron Conductor Troughsin Greenpoint Car House an adjacent property owner. A T-bar was substituted to bridgethe gap, but otherwise the construction is practically the same aselsewhere. The T-section is connected to the standard bar byminiature railway fishplates. 1020 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 24; The most important installation of all is that on and near thesurface car incline at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn trough and bars are car
. Electric railway journal . Brooklyn Line Department—Iron-Bars and Troughs atConcord and Adams Streets. Brooklyn Line Department—Bar-Iron Conductor Troughsin Greenpoint Car House an adjacent property owner. A T-bar was substituted to bridgethe gap, but otherwise the construction is practically the same aselsewhere. The T-section is connected to the standard bar byminiature railway fishplates. 1020 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 24; The most important installation of all is that on and near thesurface car incline at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn trough and bars are carried from davit-form trusses, whichare of ample strength to carry the line and withstand thepressure of snow, sleet or wind. So far as the iron bars areconcerned, defects rarely occur until the entire installation isworn out, with the exception of the diagonals and frogs, whichcan be replaced most readily. Acknowledgments are due to C. E. Roehl, electrical engineer,and H. H. Hilborn, superintendent of the line department,Brooklyn Rapid Transit System, for many courtesies in con-nection with the pr
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