. The street railway review . d service, and the manage-ment of the road believes that the short distance between theneighboring houses and the railway would not be objectionable tccled by an interlockcr, and the other being with the & I).iyton at Troy, at which point a Porter derailer isinstalled. The line consists chiefly of long tangents, one of which,near Thackery, is five miles in length and there is another fourmiles long. The portion of the road which remains to be builtextends from Christiansburg north to Lena and thence- west to AiG. JO. 1904.] STREET RAILWAY REVIE
. The street railway review . d service, and the manage-ment of the road believes that the short distance between theneighboring houses and the railway would not be objectionable tccled by an interlockcr, and the other being with the & I).iyton at Troy, at which point a Porter derailer isinstalled. The line consists chiefly of long tangents, one of which,near Thackery, is five miles in length and there is another fourmiles long. The portion of the road which remains to be builtextends from Christiansburg north to Lena and thence- west to AiG. JO. 1904.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 527 Piqua. The line between Lena and Piqua passes through the townsof Conover, Fletcher and Jordans and is parallel to the Pan Handleline, but distant a half mile from it, bringing the road in closerconnection with the towns just mentioned which are at some dis-tance away from the steam road. In the paved streets of the city of Springfield the track is laidwith 6-in. T-rail made hv the Lorain Steel Co., which also fur-. niilcs. These liigli tension lines are carried on Locke No. 103insulators. These are two-piece double petticoat porcelain in-sulators of new design and are unusually large. The petticoatwhich is 7 in. in diameter is made in the .shape of an exact halfsphere and these are mounted on iiJS .x i;/2-in. locust pins. Thereare two cross arms at the top of the poles on which the high ten-sion wires are carried and these cross arms instead of having theusual iron braces have braces of hard wood 20 in. long, which are
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