The Street railway journal (1902) (14574747569)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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SINGLE TRACK, GOOD FOR 100 MILES AN HOUR need not stop if the way is clear, are placed at three pointswhere the steam roads are crossed. One of these is atForest Home Cemetery, where the Wisconsin Centra!,Great Western and the Chicago Terminal Transfer Com-panies tracks are crossed. Towers are also located atChicago Junction Railway crossing, and at the crossing
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THIRD RAIL AND INSULATORS,, with the Illinois Central, at South Flmhurst. As far aspossible highways and steam roads have not been crossedat grade. At highway grade crossings it is, of course, necessaryto omit a short section of the third rail. At a 66-ft. high-way crossing, which is the regular width of country hign-ways, the third rail is omitted for a distance of 75 ft. For (Vol. XX. No. 14. connecting across this interruption in the third rail, a lead-covered cable of 1,500,000-circ. mils cross section is placedin the ground, no protection being used for the lead sheathexcept a board placed over the cable. The Climax vitrifiedclay stock guards have been put in at all such crossings. The bonding of the track rails is accomplished with twoUnited States bonds of the American Steel & Wire Com-pany at each joint. These bonds are 12 ins. long, with i-in.terminals, and have each a cross-section of 250,000 circ.mils. Each third rail joint is bonded with two ProtectedRail-Bond Companys