. The Street railway journal . ends of the rails milled to this bevelat the mill was 50 cents per ton. An A. S. C. E. T-rail is used,as in all the Denver work. ►♦^ The Southern Pacific has discontinued twenty-five regularpassenger trains between Los Angeles and suburban points, asa direct result of the competition of the electric lines. 984 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 22. UTILIZING OLD LEAD-COVERED CABLES IN ST. LOUIS The United Railways Company, of St. Louis, at the close ofthe Worlds Fair, purchased a machine for putting braided cov-ering on overhead feed wire. This machine, with
. The Street railway journal . ends of the rails milled to this bevelat the mill was 50 cents per ton. An A. S. C. E. T-rail is used,as in all the Denver work. ►♦^ The Southern Pacific has discontinued twenty-five regularpassenger trains between Los Angeles and suburban points, asa direct result of the competition of the electric lines. 984 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 22. UTILIZING OLD LEAD-COVERED CABLES IN ST. LOUIS The United Railways Company, of St. Louis, at the close ofthe Worlds Fair, purchased a machine for putting braided cov-ering on overhead feed wire. This machine, with auxiliaryappliances, has been installed and is in operation, puttingbraided covering on a lot of underground cable, the insulationof which was ruined in the companys great conduit burn-outwhich occurred last June. The machine is capable of puttingon three layers of braid. Fig. 4 shows the apparatus in opera-tion. The reel of newly insulated wire is shown in the fore-ground. The reel from which the wire is being drawn is in. FIG. 1.—MOTOR REEL WAGON USED IN ST. LOUIS the extreme background. The caljle first passes through theinsulating machine and up over the large sheave at the top,then down into a tank of hot insulating compound, up overanother sheave and onto the reel of finished wire. The insu-lating compound tank is kept hot with a kerosene Ijlow-torchapparatus, the tank of which is seen standing next to the tankof insulating compound. The insulating compound is mixedby the company in a separate fireproof building, the mixing potbeing covered with a closed hood. The insulating compound The operation of pulling this old cable out of the conduit andstripping off the lead covering is interesting. Fig. 2 showsthe operation. The cable is led out of the conduit onto a reelmounted on a special wagon. The reel on the wagon is gearedto a railway motor. Between the manhole of the conduit andthe reel wagon is an appliance for stripping off the appliance is shown
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