. Electric railway journal . IN SAN FRANCISCO BY S. L. FOSTER, CHIEF ELECTRICIAN UNITED RAILROADS OF SANFRANCISCO In San Francisco the United Railroads is at present engagedin installing about 600 iron poles with ornamental castings ofan unusual design on three of the principal streets of the city—Market, Valencia and Sutter. These poles were modeledafter the very ornate columns on the Alexandria bridge in being lowered into place, some device outside of the linemensusual resourceful list of tools had to be provided. As theerection of 600 sets of these castings was a large piece of work,it jus
. Electric railway journal . IN SAN FRANCISCO BY S. L. FOSTER, CHIEF ELECTRICIAN UNITED RAILROADS OF SANFRANCISCO In San Francisco the United Railroads is at present engagedin installing about 600 iron poles with ornamental castings ofan unusual design on three of the principal streets of the city—Market, Valencia and Sutter. These poles were modeledafter the very ornate columns on the Alexandria bridge in being lowered into place, some device outside of the linemensusual resourceful list of tools had to be provided. As theerection of 600 sets of these castings was a large piece of work,it justified considerable expense in constructing the apparatusso as to make it as labor-saving as possible and also to insurethat this saving should more than repay the cost of buildingthe hoist. The illustrations tell the story. An ordinary swinging-leaf,telescope tower wagon was equipped with a guyed rigid square5-in. x s-in. Oregon pine lower mast and a 3^-in. x 3% top mast hinged to the former and tapering to 3%
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