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"LINE INSTALLER, STREET RAILWAY"
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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.

 

 

 


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DOT:   821.361-022

Job Number: 5908