Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (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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f the Boston & Northern Railway atthe outskirts of Lowell, over the tracks ofwhich company it operates 4^2 miles to theheart of the city and through its center at Merrimac Square,thus making 17)4 miles of operation in all. While crossinga rough section of country a generally low gradient has beenestablished with cuts opened and fills shouldered to standardsteam road practice. Where to any advantage of alignmentor grade, private way has been secured, and outside of town Xo. 0000 protected type bonds at each joint laid under Weberjoints and with No. 0000 flexible cross-bonds every 500 ft. Adouble-grooved No. 0000 trolley has been used on extra heavy11-ft. guy and strut bracket arms, all malleable fittings andplaced on 35-ft. chestnut poles, except in streets where spanconstruction has been adopted. Garton lightning arrestershave also been placed on line every 1000 ft. From the Lowell power house of the Boston & NorthernRailway to Forge Village, Mass., and about centrally located
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