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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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nal PLAN OF CAR SHOWING SEATING ARRANGEMENT ing to require a reduction of a speed from 70 miles per prevent catching of the contact-shoes on cars which are hour. The third-rail insulators were furnished by the OhioBrass Company. The first of these laid were woodenblocks boiled in paraffine oil, and the balance a special de-sign of Mr. Gonzenbach, made by the same companyThis new design of third-rail insulator consists of a cast- passing along the main line, the third rail has been bentdownward so as to clear the contact-shoe. This is a moresimple construction and does away with some under-ground connections which would otherwise be necessarywere a separate isolated section of third rail put in for thecross-over. On the double track there is a cross-over 570 about ever)- three miles. The switches are all of the stand-ard steam-road pattern, with No. 10 spring frogs, furnishedby the Morden Frog & Crossing Works. Interlockingsignal towers, with home and distant signals so that trains
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SINGLE TRACK, GOOD FOR 100 MILES AN HOUR need not stop if the way is clear, are placed at three pointswhere the steam roads are crossed. One of these is atForest Home Cemetery, where the Wisconsin Centra!,Great Western and the Chicago Terminal Transfer Com-panies tracks are crossed. Towers are also located atChicago Junction Railway crossing, and at the crossing

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