. The Street railway journal . FIG. 4.—ENGINE ROOM—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO. inch chairs; the latter spiked directly to the ties. Twenty-four inch joint plates are used with the seventy-twopound rail, and thirty-two inch joint plates with the ninety pound rail. The ties are 6x8 ins X 8 ft. and aielaid thirty inches between centers. The return circuit isprovided by double bonding the rails and connecting 544 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 9. with a supplementary of 500,000 circular mills pins with tin No. o. wire are used for bonding. The trolley wire emplo
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 4.—ENGINE ROOM—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO. inch chairs; the latter spiked directly to the ties. Twenty-four inch joint plates are used with the seventy-twopound rail, and thirty-two inch joint plates with the ninety pound rail. The ties are 6x8 ins X 8 ft. and aielaid thirty inches between centers. The return circuit isprovided by double bonding the rails and connecting 544 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 9. with a supplementary of 500,000 circular mills pins with tin No. o. wire are used for bonding. The trolley wire employed is No. o. The feed wireconsists of eighteen miles of 500,000 circular mills wire,and six miles of No. 0000 wire, both supplied by theJohn A. Roeblings Sons Company. The line appliances. The car houses of the company for housing the elec-trical equipment are two in number. The principal oneadjoins the power house, and measures 227 X 50 are five tracks in the building to which easy ac-cess is provided by a Hathaway transfer table. The com-pany is about to commence the erection of another car house for the Green line, at thecorner of Pennsylvania and NorthAvenues. The building will be325 X 75 ft., and will containseven tracks. Cars for New Orleans. 0 FIG -ENTRANCE TO DRUID HILL PARK, SHOWING CABLE AND ELECTRICSYSTEMS—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO. were supplied by the New York Electrical Works. Tu-bular poles of six, five and four inches diameter and weigh-ing 725 lbs- each, are used. Near the power stationheavier poles, weighing 1,600 lbs. and thirty-four feet inlength, are employed. The pipe sections of these polesare respectively nine, seven and six inches, and with thelighter poles were supplied by the National Tube Com-pany. The rolling stock o
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