Job Description:

• 1) Installs, inspects, and maintains street-railway electrical and related equipment, such as poles, feeder cables, trolley wires and supports, and high-tension lines, following blueprints, manuals, and work orders: Replaces worn or broken poles and straightens leaning poles, securing pole in position in ground with guy wires, using block and tackle.

• 2) Cuts faulty sections from overhead wires and splices in new wire, anchoring severed ends with block and tackle while new wire and splicing fixtures are being installed.

• 3) Installs clinch ears that connect trolley wire to supporting cross cables, and switches that throw trolley pole from one trolley wire to another, using hammer and clinching iron.

• 4) Installs running boards that carry trolley wires under overhead crossings by clamping boards to beams or girders.

• 5) Strings cable from pole to pole with assistance of ground crew.

• 6) Tests electrical installations, using various testing devices.