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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Electrification of the Rochester Division of the Erie—Catenary Trolley Bracket. hangers are spaced every 10 feet. Steady strains are usedonly on curves and turnouts and were not found necessary ontangent track. The tie wires are of No. 9 Extra BB. galvanized telegraphwire, because it was thought best not to make too rigid anattachment between the messenger wire and the insulator; sothat if a bracket became detached from the pole for any rea-son, its weight and the shock of detachment would tear thewire clear from the messenger and allow the bracket to fallentirely away from the wire and reduce the chance of steamrailroad trains colliding with it. An accident to the electricalequipment of a railway operating both steam and electrictrains may shut down the electric service, but will not auto- the passage of steam trains, which are, of course, independentof any disturbances on the electric motive power system. Upto the present time, however, there have been no cases wherethe overhead c

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