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Identifier: electricrailway331909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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New Canaan Electrification—View at Junction with the Main Line, Illustrating the Difference in OverheadConstruction Between Heavy and Light A.C. Operation and has a total route length of 7.66 miles. The interme- nearly 25 per cent of the route the wires were carried fromdiate stations after leaving Stamford are: Glenbrook, 2 the main line overhead bridges, which had been extendedmiles; Springdale, 3.22 miles; Talmadge Hill, 5.47 miles. over the branch tracks with this end in view. There is, of
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New Canaan Electrification—Branch Line Motor and Trail Car at Stamford, on the Main Line Between Stamford and Glenbrook the branch tracks adjointhose of the main line, but the branch line cars run to andleave from the former station, because no through trainsstop at Glenbrook. The branch was originally operated course, an appreciable saving in cost of power from sup-plying the line from the main Cos Cob station, only 11.27miles from New Canaan, instead of by independent power.Direct-current operation of the New Canaan branch was May 15, 1909.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 901 discontinued about Nov. 1, 1907, and the results obtainedsince the installation of the 11,000-volt, 25-cycle, single-phase catenary clearly demonstrate the adaptability of thissystem for branch-line electrification. The following is adescription of the principal features of the overhead lineand of the rolling stock: OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION The overhead line between Glenbrook junction and NewCanaan is carried on wood

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