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Identifier: streetrailwayjo161900newy (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.
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and car wheels, making the ground connections betweeninsulated rail and ground. This circuit is clearly shown inthe accompanying sketch. One field coil of the motor isused to throw target up and the other field coil so con-nected as to operate arm in other direction. The signalmotor is shunted around a 50-volt lamp, which gives only50 volts between insulated section of rail and the ground;in fact in actual practice the voltage is not even this high,as enough leakage will take place to reduce this voltage toabout 30 volts, which is too low to be noticed by cominginto contact with rail. The company has two power houses, one of which was METHOD OF CAR WIRING
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INTERURBAN CAR ON WESTERVILLE LINE One end of the arm is made of white pine, painted red; theother end has two red bulls eye lights which cover or ex-pose an incandescent light for night signal. Thearm is operated by a Western Electric Companys16-in. fan motor, geared to a countershaft, which isconnected to the arm by a small crank and connecting rod.The crank is arranged to make a little more than half a acquired by purchase, and is used largely as an auxiliary.The first, the Spring Street station, has two Buckeye tan-dem compound-condensing engines of 750-hp each, direct-connected to G. E. 500-kw generators. This station hasalso one cross-compound Green-Wheelock engine of 1200hp, direct connected to an 850-kw G. E. generator; threeMcintosh & Seymour tandem compound engines of 300 796 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 35. hp each, belted to G. E. generators; Wheeler surface con-denser, Cockran oil separator and Babcock & Wilcox boil-ers. There is also an automatic gravit

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo161900newy
  • 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:220
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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