Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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by L. Thormann, chief engineer elec-tric traction of this railway, some interesting data arepresented on features of line construction and opera-tion. On open sections the double catenary standardcommon on other European single-phase lines is used,but the construction in the tunnel is special. The tun-nel catenary is of duplex wire, comprising a steel coreof 6 mm (No. 3 B & S) diameter and plating of 1.25mm (No. 11 B & S) copper. The height of the trolleywire above the head of the rails is 6 m (19.7 ft.) to7 m (23 ft.) at stations and 4.8 m (15.7 ft.) in thetunnels. The method of carrying the double insulatorsand trolley in the tunnel is shown in the accompanyingillustrations. The supporting points are 22 m (72.2ft.) to 28 m. (91.8 ft.). TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CONDITIONS Between Kandergrund and Ausserberg the telephoneand telegraph wires were placed underground in paper-covered, air-insulated cables. Elsewhere these lineswere placed on wooden poles, the wires being transposed
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Lotschberg Railway—Details of Insulator, Showing Method of Carrying the Catenary from the Tunnel Roof director for two years, J. P. Moffett, superintendent oftransportation; director for one year, William L. Clark,assistant secretary. About eighty-five persons wereelected to membership. Addresses were delivered at the meeting by HenryL. West, former District commissioner; Clarence P.King, president of the railway company; William F.Ham, vice-president of the railway company; GeorgeTruesdell, former District commissioner, and W. F. De-ment, assistant superintendent of transportation of therailway company. In his address Mr. West declaredthat, notwithstanding his services as District commis-sioner, he did not consider that he had learned muchabout railway operation and was of the opinion that noDistrict commissioner can acquire a valuable knowledgeof that subject during the term of office of commission-ers. He said that a study of railway problems, there-fore, had confirmed him in the

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