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Identifier:streetrailwayj271906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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any, together with all the right andtitle to the railway companys right of way from Rochester toLockport. The railway company, which is capitalized at $2,-000,000, is building an electric railway to connect Rochesterand Lockport. The right of way, which is of itself a veryvaluable thing for the transmission company to own at thistime, has been secured for the entire distance, but the con-struction has progressed in part only to a point betweenSpencerport and Adams Basin. At no point on the line, exceptin the village of Albion, have any rails been laid. It is under-stood that the purchase, if made, will not be by the transmis-sion company direct, but by persons as individuals who arelarge stockholders in the transmission company. 194 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 5. SURFACE CONTACT SYSTEM IN LINCOLN The popularity of surface contact systems in England is evi-denced by the equipment of the lines of the Municipal Tram-ways Company, of Lincoln, with the system of the G. B. Sur-
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a galvanized iron cable, which is carried in a conduit with aninside diameter of 5 ins., under the center of the track. Thereare connections to the surface every 9 ft. by which the currentis conducted to stud heads laid flush in the pavement. Thecable is supported in the conduit, as shown in the section, on acorrugated round insulator, whose shaft extends on one sidethrough the side of the conduit, and is there earthed to preventany leakage to the contact stud when the latter is supposed tobe dead. All longitudinal and vertical joints in the conduitare sealed with bitumen to prevent the entrance of any water.The stud is electrically connected with the cable, when the carpasses over it, by means of a plunger which is held by a springnormally away from the iron cable. When the magnets onthe car pass over the stud plate, the plunger is magnetically

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:209
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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