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Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ROTARY TRANSFORMKK. 500-kilowatt rotary transformers for supplying electricrailways in the vicinity of its power house. These rotarytransformers are not greatly different from a direct cur-rent generator in which at four equi-distant points aroundthe commutator a lead is taken off and connected to acollector ring on the alternating current end. At one endof the armature are the four rings that take the two phasealternating current. At the other end is the ordinary (^Wetl?^iU;ay5^ym/ (3 27
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CAR RAKNS. direct current commutator. These machines are self-starting and self exciting. The electric car equipment has several new features.The motor cars all have four G. E. 800 motors. Theequipment is made heavy to make high speed and climbthree heavy grades. The controlling arrangement issomething that is tried for the first time on this road.When running through the country and high speed is as it would be a very diffi:ult job to stop these heavyfour-motor cars with trailers, without something of thiskind. The motor cars seat 40 people. Besides the 20motor cars there are 10 twelve seat open trailers, seating60 people and mounted on double trucks with 24 inchwheels. They were built by the Jackson & Sharp CarCompany, of Wilmington. Several elements in the construction of the road have

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