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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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-ity each. The power is transmitted to Sacramento over two pole lines.The poles are forty foot, round Washington cedar set six feet in theground, and a large standard General Electric porcelain insulator isused, which has a factory test of 30,000 volts before shipping. Eachpole line has six wires, and each set of three wires has a capacityof 1000 h. p. The necessity of a double line has often been demon-strated, as the service during the twenty-four hours cannot be in-terrupted. By means of switches at Folsom and Sacramento thepower can be thrown to any line or any set of transformers, so thatin any event an interruption to the service can only be a matter of afew seconds. The line has .stood the severe gales of the past winter,only a few minor repairs having to be made. At the substation in Sacramento the current is transformeddown through step-down transformers of 125 k. w. and 40 k. w. ca- *Read at the first annual meeting of the California Street Railway Association,Apr. 21, 1896.
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374 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 6. pacity to looo, 500, 230 and 115 volts for power and incandescentlighting. In this station are three 325 h. p. synchronizing motors, whichare coujaled by means of friction clutches to a countershaft, towhich are belted one M. P. 200, an M. P. 90 and two Edison 80 k. w.500 volt generators for operating twenty miles of street railwayowned by the companj and four small 500 volt motors. To thiscountershaft are also belted three 100 light Brush arc machines andtwo 125 light machines of the same type for city and commerciallighting. The company has in operation 234 city lights, 117 com-mercial arcs and 3000 incandescent lights, 150 h. p. in small directcurrent motors and 100 h. p. in small three phase induction motors,also operating twenty-two regular cars on its street car system.Electrical machinery is now being placed in the Buffalo brewery.Phoenix mills and other institutions, and recently a contract wasclosed with the Southern Pacific Compa

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