. The Street railway journal . ron, five on each pole. The strains from thewooden arms in front are transmitted directly to theseiron arms, by three-quarters inch tie rods, four toeach tier of arms. The two poles are also rigidly con-nected by longitudinal tie beams, 4X5 ins., which arebolted to the ends of angle iron arms. The total heightof the poles is thirty feet. The main cables are dead ended, where they areattached to the pole, and the station connections aretapped to them by inserting the cable ends into socketscast in the end connectors. The cables turn a squarecorner and leave the po
. The Street railway journal . ron, five on each pole. The strains from thewooden arms in front are transmitted directly to theseiron arms, by three-quarters inch tie rods, four toeach tier of arms. The two poles are also rigidly con-nected by longitudinal tie beams, 4X5 ins., which arebolted to the ends of angle iron arms. The total heightof the poles is thirty feet. The main cables are dead ended, where they areattached to the pole, and the station connections aretapped to them by inserting the cable ends into socketscast in the end connectors. The cables turn a squarecorner and leave the pole at a right angle in order toenter the station. In each tier of arms is a diagonal tiebeam, bored for pins, and running diagonally from thestreet end of the rear arm to the station end of the front iron cable, are attached to the equalizers by heavy ironclevises. One V guy has its branches attached to theupper ends of these equalizers and the other to the lowerends. The branches of the Vs unite about eight feetfrom the FIG. 2.—MAIN FEEDER POLE LINE AND SECTIONFEEDERS—NEW ORLEANS.
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