. The Street railway journal . rs per day, and asmany as 1,500 have been carried in threecars in a single afternoon. The line isequipped with independent motors and withmotor cars, the latter being of the opencurtained type permissible in that genialclimate. While the route involves no especialdifficulties in the way of gradient, thecurves present the customary problem,which is dealt with as shown in Fig. 1,which represents the line from East Pico,across Main, into West Pico streets. Itwill be observed that the conductor alongMain street is supported by a spar sus-pended from a wire secured to
. The Street railway journal . rs per day, and asmany as 1,500 have been carried in threecars in a single afternoon. The line isequipped with independent motors and withmotor cars, the latter being of the opencurtained type permissible in that genialclimate. While the route involves no especialdifficulties in the way of gradient, thecurves present the customary problem,which is dealt with as shown in Fig. 1,which represents the line from East Pico,across Main, into West Pico streets. Itwill be observed that the conductor alongMain street is supported by a spar sus-pended from a wire secured to posts atthe curbs of the sidewalks, instead of themore usual arm extending from a singlepost. This arrangement obviates the ob-jectionable expedient of erecting postsin the midst of thronged thoroughfares,and possesses certain merits which pos-sibly entitle it to general use. The manner of insulating and attachingthe conductors to the arms and spars re-ferred to is given in Fig. 2. The end ele- 588 THE STREET RAILWAY
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