Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (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
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FIG. 17.—DOUGLAS SUB-STATION one being steam driven and the other motor driven. At variouspoints along the route from Douglas to Ramsey there are ticketoffices and waiting rooms, etc. We now come to the railway running from Laxey to thesummit of the Snaefell Mountain. This line comprises a double line, 4 miles 5 furlongs long,and 3-ft. 6-in. gage, and was constructed in 1895. It starts fromLaxey Station, crosses the high road from Douglas to Ramsey,and thence goes up the valley of the Laxey River to the summitof Snaefell. The track is laid with 56-lb. T-rails, and a center rail, whichis used for braking purposes, weighs 65 lbs. per yard. Theheaviest grade is 81/, per cent, the majority of the line being
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FIG. 16.—TYPICAL OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION at that slope. The rails are bonded with flat copper strip,riveted to the rails. The line is equipped on the overhead system, No. 0 B. W. G.trolley wires being employed, which are hung from the bracketarms by means of TEtna bell insulators. Steel poles, measur-ing 6 ins. in diameter at the base and tapering to 3 ins. at thetop, are employed, These are fixed in concrete foundationsabout 6 ft. deep, The summit of Snaefell is connected with the car house atLaxey by overhead telephone wires carried on the tramwaypoles. A 37-14 underground feeder cable connects the Snaefell powerstation with the accumulator station at Laxey, feeding into theoverhead wire through feeder pillars placed every mile alongthe route. A similar cable joins the accumulator house withthe Laxey power station, and is looped into the stationmastersoffice at Laxey, at which point a small switchboard has beenerected. These cables are of Callenders make, lead sheathedand armored. T

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