Glass insulators to be used as third rail insulator

[Newspaper]

Publication: Daily Evening Bulletin

San Francisco, CA, United States
vol. 60, no. 58, p. 3, col. 5

Electric Motor in New York.

NEW YORK, June 12. — "Within a few weeks we shall have car propelled by our electric motor running on the Second-avenue Elevated Road, from Chatham square to Harlem," said Mr. Johnston, Vice-President of the Electric Railway Company yesterday. "The 800 tons of steel rails for the third track have arrived, and they are being hoisted up to the structure. A firm in Pittsburg is making glass insulators. Durant's old sugar refinery on Twenty-fourth street, is being fitted up for a generating station."

Keywords:	Third Rail Insulator : Interurban Railway
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Supplemental information:
Researcher:	Bob Stahr
Date completed:	May 31, 2008 by: Bob Stahr;