Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (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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ell underneath the boiler room floor,from which it is pumped by the low-duty pump through a Cochrane feed-water heater. A stack, 6 ft. in diameter and 125 ft. high,serves all of the boilers. The generating apparatus in the engine room consists oftwo 500-hp tandem compound Russell non-condensing en-gines direct connected to General Electric 13,000-volt, 25-cycle generators and a iso-kw Russell engine direct con- 898 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 21. nccted to 2300-volt, bo-cycle generator, which, however,furnishes current for lighting only. It is the intention toinstall an additional 500-kw unit in the near future. Amotor-generator set installed in the engine room consistsof a 370-volt, 25-cycle, 350-hp motor direct connected to a240-kw, 600-volt generator. All of the high-tension apparatus is located in a smallcompartment between the engine room and the car houseon the west. The railway apparatus in this compartmentconsists of two 13.200-volt, 120-kw, G. E. oil-cooled trans-
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(JNE OF THE CHOCTAW RAILWAY & LIGHTING COMPANYS STANDARD INTERURBAN CARS formers, and instrument transformers located in Ijrick cellsand hand-operated, high-tension oil switches. The high-tension buses are carried on an iron pipe framework im-mediately over the aisle between the two rows of brickcells, while the lightning arresters are mounted on the east wires are 35 ft. long, while beyond Dow 30-ft. poles arcused. Every pole is numbered. Two telephone wires arecarried on brackets the full length of the line. Lightningarresters are placed five to the mile. CAR EQUIPMENTThe car equipment consists of ten motor, two double-truck passenger trail cars, two standard steam road gon-dolas and one box car. Two additional interurban pas-senger cars are to be purchased. Four of the motor carsare small ones with single truck forcity service, and the remainder, withthe exception of a freight car, havedouble trucks and are for interurbanservice. Two of these are 43 ft. longand the remainder 47

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