. Electric railway gazette . mpanysTenth Avenue and 125th Street division. The latter isoperated by cable. Trailers will be transferred to andfrom the electric line at 186th Street, and passengerswill be enabled to ride from the postoffice to 194thStreet for a single fare and without changing cars. The conduit construction will be similar to that of the125th Street cable line of the Third Avenue is practically the same as that employed in the Loveconduit construction on the Rock Creek electric line inWashington, D. C. A few changes have been made toadapt it the better to the conditi
. Electric railway gazette . mpanysTenth Avenue and 125th Street division. The latter isoperated by cable. Trailers will be transferred to andfrom the electric line at 186th Street, and passengerswill be enabled to ride from the postoffice to 194thStreet for a single fare and without changing cars. The conduit construction will be similar to that of the125th Street cable line of the Third Avenue is practically the same as that employed in the Loveconduit construction on the Rock Creek electric line inWashington, D. C. A few changes have been made toadapt it the better to the conditions existing on TenthAvenue. A complete metallic circuit will be employedand current will be distributed at 500 volts. Theyokes are of cast iron and will be spaced about 4%feet apart. They are set on concrete foundationswhich are six inches in depth and concrete is alsoused on the sides of the conduit. The conduit liningis cast iron. The slot rails are of an inverted Ushape, the lip next the slot being of greater length than. TRACK CONSTRUCTION. the other lip to protect the conductors from water orpieces of metal which might fall into the conduit. The conductors are copper bars, with curved flangestop and bottom. They are in lengths of 14J4 feet,and the ends of those forming- the same side of thecircuit, instead of being butted, overlap each otherfor a distance of six inches, forming- the expansion andcontraction joint. The two channel bars are held to-gether here in spring contact by a bolt, which passesthrough an elongated hole in a brass plate riveted toeach channel, thus permitting the necessary freedom ofmotion from heat and cold. The conductors are supported from the yokes only atthe joints, so that the insulators on each side are located13 feet apart. The insulator, which is supportedfrom the yoke, is not connected rigidly to it, but restsupon two horizontal rods, so that it can move in the di-rection of the conductor, backward or forward, whileresisting- motion in an} o
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