The Street railway journal (1906) (14761118895)

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Identifier: streetrailwayjo271906newy (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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e line construction of almostevery electric railway and power transmis-sion system was patterned after the stan-dards which were evolved from telegraphconstruction practice where the conditionswere not particularly exacting, and the pen-alty for breakdown was not great. The ab-solute necessity for reliability in a transmis-sion line that serves a public utility of suchmagnitude as the Long Island Railroad, re-quires a stability in all parts of the construc-tion that calls for the exercise of engineer-ing skill and foresight to a greater extentthan has hitherto been usually brought tobear. To give the continuous service whichconditions demand it is necessary to con-struct a line in which the chance of failurepart is reduced to a minimum, and thatbe torn down or seriously disabled, except ical sufficiency and stability to a degree of perfection thatwould afford the least possible chance for a shutdown fromany of the usual causes. There are two general divisions of the overhead consturc-
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FIG. 8.- of any cannot through -ARRESTER HOUSE AT BROAD CHANNEL UKAWLIKIDGE tion, the trunk line between Dutchkills Street and Wood-haven Junction, and the branch lines between that point andthe other outlying sub-stations. The trunk line, shown in

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