. Electric railway journal . om the center line of the track, and arespaced 150 ft. on tangents. At curves the poles are guyedwith plate anchors and -Hs-in. steel strand wire. Thebracket is a simple 3-in. steel I-beam turned up at the endand braced by a j4-in. wrought-iron tension rod boltedthrough the pole. The messenger wire is of 7/16-in. baresteel strand, and is carried on glazed porcelain doublepetticoat insulators. These insulators are 7^ in. in diam-eter, 5^2 in. high, and are protected from the blasts of the lectors on the cars take current at 11,000 volts it was notnecessary to instal
. Electric railway journal . om the center line of the track, and arespaced 150 ft. on tangents. At curves the poles are guyedwith plate anchors and -Hs-in. steel strand wire. Thebracket is a simple 3-in. steel I-beam turned up at the endand braced by a j4-in. wrought-iron tension rod boltedthrough the pole. The messenger wire is of 7/16-in. baresteel strand, and is carried on glazed porcelain doublepetticoat insulators. These insulators are 7^ in. in diam-eter, 5^2 in. high, and are protected from the blasts of the lectors on the cars take current at 11,000 volts it was notnecessary to install any transformer stations or specialtransmission wires at any point on this division. Section insulators are located at Talmadge Hill, Spring-dale and the main line junction at Glenbrook. The sectioninsulator at the main line junction at Glenbrook is shownin the illustrations on pages 900 and 902; in addition thereare other breakers at Talmadge Hill and Springdale. Thesidings normally are dead, being cut in only when neces-. New Canaan Electrification—Wiring Diagram of Electrical Apparatus steam freight locomotives operating on this division by anunder piece of sheet iron clamped to the bracket. An aux-iliary, No. 0000, steel working conductor is clamped to theNo. 0000 copper feeder wire, as on the main line. Hickory sary. It should be stated that as the trip between NewCanaan and Stamford is made in 17 to 20 minutes, onlyone train is required ordinarily to carry out the overhead line is grounded by No. 0000 iron wire ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIII. No. 20. which is swung from pole to pole and grounded to therails every five poles. This ground wire constitutes the
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