. Electric railway gazette . nd has already been cleared for the dimensions will be 150 by 100 feet. The station willhave a capacity of 400 hp, and the two multitubularboilers for the plant, built by the Franklin Iron Works, ofTroy, N. Y., are already on the ground. The road is exceptionally well constructed. An eight-inch rail grooved weighing about 7 5 pounds to the yard isbeing used, and on all special work the slot rails are madeof riveted iron bars, as shown in one of the small yokes, as the illustration shows, are massive ironcastings, which besides forming the con
. Electric railway gazette . nd has already been cleared for the dimensions will be 150 by 100 feet. The station willhave a capacity of 400 hp, and the two multitubularboilers for the plant, built by the Franklin Iron Works, ofTroy, N. Y., are already on the ground. The road is exceptionally well constructed. An eight-inch rail grooved weighing about 7 5 pounds to the yard isbeing used, and on all special work the slot rails are madeof riveted iron bars, as shown in one of the small yokes, as the illustration shows, are massive ironcastings, which besides forming the conduit support therails. An iron hand hole is cast in either side of theyoke. These yokes are placed about 12 feet apart, andthe sheet iron sections of conduit are laid in between. Thesystem is being installed without any electrical conduc-tors. These will be inserted through the slots and placedin position by reaching through the hand holes. MajorMcNulty and A. G. Wheeler are engineering the workfor the Love Traction ELECTRIC RAILWAY CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION ON AMSTERDAM AVENUE—TYPE OF YOKE—SLOT RAILS. 310 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 17 Deatto Conduit Railway System. A new conduit system belonging to that class in whichsurface contacts with magnetic connecting devices areutilized, is illustrated in the accompanying cuts. The car
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