Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nge the systems. Telephone boothsarc placed at all switches and crossovers and. of course, in the sub-Stations. At intervals of about 1.000 ft. wires are brought down thepoles for connecting to telephones earned in the cars. A complete bridging telephone system was furnished by the Garl ElectricVkron, O.All the poles are numbered, figures about ->_■ in. high heing used.Numbers alone are used betweei - nid Wheaton; on the Sub-Stations.The six sub-stations are located so that they Eorm convenientcenters of distribution. The continuous current produced at the sub-Stations i- fed directly into the third rails so thai all directcurrent feeders are done away with. Outside of the sub-stationsthe only cables used are for connecting the ends of the third rail.11 streets and grade crossings with other railroads. The sub-stations are numbered from one 10 -i\ and are located as follows:No. i, at Aurora; No. 2. Warrenville; No. 3. Lombard; No. 4.May wood; No. 5. Engleton; No. 6, Clintonville,
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PLAN ANI> ELEVATION OF TOP OK STRAIN TOWER. Wheaton.Aurora branch the letter A 1- used i addition, andsimilarly E on the Elgin branch, B on the Batavia branch andcountry transmission line. of the line drawings show ndard guard frame for high-tension lines, and in the front elevation the cro for the high tension feeders are shown dotted, the centeiof the three-phase wires being al ■! by the lettei I I I. the guard frame ii formed by a cross arm 454 x 5 in. x nd bolted and braced to the lop of il BOli idi 1 gained and bolted to the top piece and to u in.lengths of tl rtion al the bottom. These blocks are in Vine with the lower cro^ arm to which the) ed by 1 Va X 1 in. I j ving guard frai .1 7-trand galvanized oles which an fa tened to round iron located al th< poinl marked G in .ving, and a ninth which < ire 21 in. between ci ntei I I drawing lii Ii 11 will be noted are ottom and fastened to the tide of the pole with ! ,,f being I he front with but one or bolt Wbi r< not;,

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