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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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since. At first the nature of instruction was general, theidea being to familiarize the men with the various elec-trical terms, phrases, etc., and to outline in a practicalway the principal features of power generation, trans-mission and utilization, and systems of unit-switch con-trol. A car instruction plant was erected, equipped withstandard multiple-unit apparatus, and operated fordemonstration purposes. But this season the Practical Railway Electricitycourse of the association has treated specifically themultiple-unit equipment and electric train service of thePhiladelphia-Paoli electrification. A series of twentylectures has been arranged, covering a period of thesame number of weeks. Sessions are held one eveningper week for men employed in daytime, and the samelecture is repeated the following morning for the nightmen. A set of syllabi was prepared, containing a descrip-tion of the electric equipment and line, and relativeoperating features, with necessary diagrams and charts.
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TRAINING STEAM RAILROAD MEN—COMPLETE M. U. TRAIN AT NARBETH STATION, MAIN LINE, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD May 22, 1915) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 971 SYLLABUS FOR CLASS IN RAILWAYELECTRICITY, P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Philadelphia, 19)5. PART L MULTIPLE UNIT SYSTEM—ELECTRICALMP EQUIPMENT—P. K. R.—E CARS—. 54DIVISION OF CURRENTS MULTIPLE UNIT SYSTEM The Multiple Unit System of electric railwayoperation enables a train of any number of cars-,one or more, to-be operated as a unit, and by oneoperator. In the application of this system to the Phila-delpbia-Paoli electrification, each car will beequipped with motors and the requisite apparatusfor feeding them power current, which will becollected by a pantograph trolley from an over-head catenary suspended contact wire. The ap-paratus that feeds the power current to the mo-tors consists of a number of electric switches,operated by compressed air, artuated by electriccurrent flowing in a circuit independent of thepower circuit and known as t

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