. The Street railway journal . PROTECTING WIRES AT RAILROAD CROSSING of the New York Central Railroad, which it closely parallels,and a large amount of rock cutting was necessary. In oneplace there was a cut of 19,000 yards, through solid rock. Theright of way is from f>6 ft. to 150 ft. wide, and the roadbed is. ROCK CUT AT HOFFMANS graded 30 ft. wide, on a level, and 26 ft. wide on fills. Thetrack is laid with 80-lb. A. S. C. E. section. Weber 4-bolt, are used, under which are placed 0000 Crown bonds, fur-nished by the American Steel & Wire Company. On city streets, cross-susp
. The Street railway journal . PROTECTING WIRES AT RAILROAD CROSSING of the New York Central Railroad, which it closely parallels,and a large amount of rock cutting was necessary. In oneplace there was a cut of 19,000 yards, through solid rock. Theright of way is from f>6 ft. to 150 ft. wide, and the roadbed is. ROCK CUT AT HOFFMANS graded 30 ft. wide, on a level, and 26 ft. wide on fills. Thetrack is laid with 80-lb. A. S. C. E. section. Weber 4-bolt, are used, under which are placed 0000 Crown bonds, fur-nished by the American Steel & Wire Company. On city streets, cross-suspension overhead is used, but the in-terurban portion is all single and double bracket are 35 ft. tall, with butts 7 ft. below surface. A fillingof charcoal is placed below the pole, and at the base of the pole is a copper plate 24 ins. x 24 ins. x ij/2 ins., to which are sol-dered the cross-bonds from the rails of either track. The trol-ley lines are 13 ft. between centers and 000 trolley wire is are two cross-arms, the lower one carrying the telephone,signal and direct-current feeders, and the upper carrying high-tension lines. The engineer adopted the plan of using fourhigh-tension lines over the entire system, the fourth line beingfor emergency. High-tension lines are 00
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