. The Street railway journal . miles) ofline fastened on buildings by rosettes, agreat many of the streets being too nar-row to admit poles. One of our viewsshows a construction gang putting upline of this type last May. The leastdistance permitted from wire to rail is6 m. In the Place du Rhone there is avery interesting piece of work of thischaracter, it being a very open space,with a cross street on one side, comingin at right angles. One long span acrossis 80 m. (244 ft.) at a height of 7 m. (), and across the street is a parallel spanof 50 m. (152 ft.) length. The span wiresare comp
. The Street railway journal . miles) ofline fastened on buildings by rosettes, agreat many of the streets being too nar-row to admit poles. One of our viewsshows a construction gang putting upline of this type last May. The leastdistance permitted from wire to rail is6 m. In the Place du Rhone there is avery interesting piece of work of thischaracter, it being a very open space,with a cross street on one side, comingin at right angles. One long span acrossis 80 m. (244 ft.) at a height of 7 m. (), and across the street is a parallel spanof 50 m. (152 ft.) length. The span wiresare composed of fourteen steel wiresstranded, each 2 mm in diameter. Theunusually heavy construction here wasrendered necessary by the fact that adouble trolley wire had to be supportedfor the turn-out. The end plates for thisstyle of construction are heavy, and their pins, made ofinch rod corrugated, are driven in about 8 ins. In making his cable joints on the construction work,Mr. Field has adopted a plan which seems to be both new. Sc:Jc, 1:00
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