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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
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is line is so far from the otherelectric railways operated by the Long Island Railroadthat it was essential to adopt a construction requiring theleast possible maintenance. The catenary system there-fore received favorable consideration and especially so inview of the companys experience on the Glen Cove (LongIsland) line. The latter road is a 5-mile catenary line in-stalled in 1905 on which very little has been expended asyet for the maintenance of the overhead work. Aside fromthe advantages of lower maintenance and possible changeto high-tension current in the future, the adoption of thecatenary permitted a pole spacing of 150 ft. instead of100 ft. and avoided installing a feeder cable on part ofthe route. In general the catenary is carried from 3-in. I-beambrackets attached to the same poles which carry the high-tension and other wires. In Farmingdale and Amityville,however, span construction is used with three-piece tubulariron poles weighing 1065 lb. each and set in concrete to a
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Huntington Railroad—Interior of Isolated Lightning Ar-rester House at Huntington ShowingElectrolytic Arresters depth of 6 ft. In both cases the messenger wire is car-ried 20 ft. and the trolley wire (9 Ft. above the rails.Hickory steady strains arc used at all poles on curves andat every other pole on tangents. One of the accompanying drawings shows the method ioi4 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXIV. No. 19. employed to anchor the line about every 2000 ft. on tangentsections and another shows the malleable iron anchorclamp which was devised for this purpose by the LongIsland Railroad Companys engineers. ROLLING STOCK, PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE During the past summer the cross-island traffic of the No. 112 designs. The cars were withdrawn from serviceon the Ocean Electric Railway, an allied company whichoperates a line from Far Rockaway, Long Island. Themotor equipments are rather light compared with ordinarycross-country lines, but they appear to be entirely satis-factory for

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