. Electric railway gazette . avoid such a feelingafter a perusal of Mr. Barnes uotes respectingthe use of electricity in heavy railroad service,as given in abstract form in the last issue of theElectrieal Engineer.] Mr. Barnes is a well-knownauthority throughout the United States upon allrailroad topics, and whilst, of course—like all. FIG. y. THE CAPITAL RAILWAY AT , KY. been in most cases easily extinguished with abucket of water, and the damage done has beenslight. Although in many other ways (such as the cor-roding of loundatlon bolts, water-pipes used forsupplying stations, and
. Electric railway gazette . avoid such a feelingafter a perusal of Mr. Barnes uotes respectingthe use of electricity in heavy railroad service,as given in abstract form in the last issue of theElectrieal Engineer.] Mr. Barnes is a well-knownauthority throughout the United States upon allrailroad topics, and whilst, of course—like all. FIG. y. THE CAPITAL RAILWAY AT , KY. been in most cases easily extinguished with abucket of water, and the damage done has beenslight. Although in many other ways (such as the cor-roding of loundatlon bolts, water-pipes used forsupplying stations, and angle bars attached to thetransverse girders, etc ) the escape of electriccurrents of the trolley roads has proved damag-ing to the elevated structure, it has also bene-fited them by saving the amount necessary tomainlain batteries for operating the telegraphlines over the roads. The Brooklyn ElevatedRailroad uses nothing but a borrowed current foroperating its telegraph wires. This is accom-plished in most cases by running a wire into theground and connecting it with a gas or waterpipe, which readily appropriates a surticlent cur-rent from the street car line. But the BrooklynHeights surface road (which controls more than200 miles of single track trolley lines in Brooklyn)is fast paralleling its feed wires by e<iually heavy
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