. The Street railway journal . New York, will not bewithout interest. This system has been in operation forsome months on a vacant lot at the corner of First Avenueand 69th Street, New York, where an experimental track1,200 ft. in length has been installed. In this system the contact conductor is laid midwaybetween the track rails, flush with the pavement as shownin Fig. 3. The current is taken into the car by means ofa metallic brush, which bears upon this center rail, thecurrent afterwards returning to the generators at thecentral station by the track rails. This contact rail isdivided into
. The Street railway journal . New York, will not bewithout interest. This system has been in operation forsome months on a vacant lot at the corner of First Avenueand 69th Street, New York, where an experimental track1,200 ft. in length has been installed. In this system the contact conductor is laid midwaybetween the track rails, flush with the pavement as shownin Fig. 3. The current is taken into the car by means ofa metallic brush, which bears upon this center rail, thecurrent afterwards returning to the generators at thecentral station by the track rails. This contact rail isdivided into sections about eight feet in length and insu-lated from each other. By an ingenious magnetic device,which will be described later, each section is connected first question, that of drainage, is eliminated, and there isno excavation with resulting movement of the subsurfacepipes to increase the first cost of the road. The objections which have been met with in systems ofthis kind before, such as difficulty of insulation against. FIG. 1.—SECTION BOX—SURFACE CONTACT RAILWAY SYSTEM. leakage, complications of the switching devices, the diffi-culties encountered at crossings, etc., seem to have beenentirely overcome in the Johnson-Lundell system. Asthese are points about which a street railway manager
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