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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ater level, and tl 1 in and about the city is so thoroughly nated with water that sub-surface drainage is impossible, anil excavations made in the streets almost immediately till with It needs no explanation to reali/e that these conditions of affairs introduced complications in track building. Various kinds sub-soil called for special precautions in setting poles. They areusually placed with from yi to 8 ft. of the base in the ground andeach pole rests on a cypress block. Large broken stone is tampednd the base and the hole is then filled with concrete.The double flexible brackets were designed by Ford,Bacon & Davisand are made by the Crcaghead Engineering Co., of Cincinnati, O.The bracket arm is structural steel tubing 2j£ in. outside diameterand .22-in. gage, the bracket supporting rod being of structuralsteel, t.oo in. outside diameter and .20-in. gage. All of the dimen-sions are shown on the drawing. The feeders are carried on glass July 20. 1902.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 381
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/tar <r i.£/vs tw /* Gmt/vo rwr DOUBLE FLEXIBLE BRACKET For IRON POLES- MADE BY CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING CO. AFTER DESIGN OF FORI), bacon & HAVIS. insulators supported on short cross arms at the top of the pollOverhead material was supplied by the 11. W. Johns Co. and theGeneral Electric Co. The trolley wire is No. 00, and was fur-nished by the American Steel & Wire Co. ROLLING STOCK. The standard type of car was adopted after ery 1 ireful consideration of the conditions on the New Orleans & Carrollton system.The advantages of the long double truck car for city service wereof course borne in mind, but in view of the double belt arrange-ment that is the distinctive feature of ibis system, the decision was the cars to be operated. As the arrangement stands it is nowpossible to run these short cars in both directions up to the loadingplatform at the park and start them both way around thi belljust as fast as the cars can be loaded. It is believed that a shortcar can be fille

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