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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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*J ; Line of Trolley with If* Is Super-Elevation STANDARD CROSS-SECTION, SHOWING RAIL ELEVATIONON CURVES complete approximately $85. The roof, which has a pitchof 1 to 3, has an overhang of 3 ft. To prevent break-age of glass the windows are covered with a heavy wiremesh. The shingled roof is painted red, while the body is of
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December i, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1037 lemon yellow with white trimmings. Inside the station is aswitch for operating the car stop signal lamps on a polenear by. All highway crossings are protected by means ofwatch, look, listen signs of the trian-gular type usually found at steam roadcrossings. In addition to a pole numberevery fifth pole has painted upon it thedistance in miles to each terminal. POWER SUPPLY AND SUB-STATIONSA new power station, the plans ofwhich were published in the Street Rail-way Journal, Oct. 13, 1906, is being builtin Fort Wayne by the holding company,and eventually this station will supplypower to operate the line. At the presenttime power is obtained from an old gener-ating station in Fort Wayne. The onlysub-station on the line is located at Yoder,a small town 11 miles out of Fort Wayneand 14 miles distant from Bluffton. Thesingle high-tension line from the gener-ating station in Fort Wayne is carried onbeyond the Yoder sub-station to Kings-land, whi

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