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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the step-downtransioimers. Full and one-third voltage secondary laps are takento opposite ends of this switcli wliich allow the rotaryto start with a. c. current at 125 volts, and after ap-proximate speed is reached the switch is changed10 the full voltage connection. This method of start-ing is very sitisfactory indeed, as the current re-i;uired is of no considerable amount, and it alsopermits the synchronizing lamps to be entirely dis-regarded. The Hudson station is to miles south ofthe power house and differs but little in the railwayt(;uipment from the other stations, except in havinglud _oo-l<w. rotaties. The station building at IbispMiiit. aUo of brick, is considerably larger than theother stations, to accommodate the lighting appa-ratus for Hudson. Under normal conditions all sta-tions are run in multiple on both alternating and direct currentsides. However, at each station, the third rail is intcrruplcd andllie rails connected In nnrlh ami south feeder piuiels, so any par-
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Al.l;A.\^■ .V iirnsii.N Tw < 1-1a u Iu.xi.x licular section between st.ilions may be readily cut dead. slionUI lluoccasion demand it. The main repan shop and ear bouse is near the general i.llicesin Rensselaer, just across the ri\cr from .Albany. Another shop

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