. The Street railway journal . arereversed, so that each auxiliary feeder is divided into 4-milesections. This arrangement provides a maximum flexibilityof control. sulators like Fig. 11 are inserted in the catenary cables sup-porting the diverging wire between parallel tracks. Thediverging trolley wire is connected to the main wire bymeans of a frog of standard design, and in order to preventthe contact shoes on the locomotive from catching, deflec-tor wires are placed in the angle between the trolley deflectors are carried by yokes scured to the trolleywire and to a yoke at the r


. The Street railway journal . arereversed, so that each auxiliary feeder is divided into 4-milesections. This arrangement provides a maximum flexibilityof control. sulators like Fig. 11 are inserted in the catenary cables sup-porting the diverging wire between parallel tracks. Thediverging trolley wire is connected to the main wire bymeans of a frog of standard design, and in order to preventthe contact shoes on the locomotive from catching, deflec-tor wires are placed in the angle between the trolley deflectors are carried by yokes scured to the trolleywire and to a yoke at the rods fastened to the catenaryhangers. These deflectors are raised at each end so that thecollector shoe cannot catch on them. The arrangement isshown in Fig. 18, the details being given in Fig. 19. Therebeing a certain amount of flexibility in the overhead trolleysystem, when the bow is pressed upward against the contactwire, this wire is raised above the level of the other contact August 17, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 253.


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