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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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ines to be usedfor heating the feed. The feed water filters are of the Ed-miston pattern, and are arranged on the twin system. The generators are standard General Electric railwaymachines of 500 k.w. capacity. The switchboard is placedat the office end of the engine room on a gallery 14 ft. high, 206 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 4. and contains some interesting features. The equalizingswitches are placed direct on the generator panels, andrecording watt meters are connected in the circuit of eachgenerator; no watt meter is used on the station panel,which only carries a main ammeter and two volt meters,one of which is connected permanently across the bus- SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION. The system is designed for the operation of 200 cars,and is shown on the accompanying map. The system inwhich some 240 tons of copper (over one ton per car) willbe used, is divided into eighteen sections, each supplied bya separate feeder. The feeding points of the different sec- GLASNEVIN POWER HOUSE
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SANDYMOUNT Lengths in Yards means Distributing Cable V RATHFARNHAM Street Railway Journal FIG. 5.—PLAN OF FEEDER SYSTEM bars, the other being used when putting a machine in cir- tions are shown on the map. From the feeding point dis- cuit, being connected through a plug switch on each gen- tribqtors are laid along the streets of each section, and erator panel. connection is made to the trolley wire at intervals of ap- The engine house is 80 ft. x 153 ft., and is traversed the proximately a quarter of a mile, the connection being made whole length by a 25-ton three-motor electric crane. through an automatic circuit breaker. April, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 207 The trolley wire is No. o Roeblings, and each quartermile is insulated, so that any section of line a quartermile long can be made dead by opening the circuit breakercontrolling it, placed in an iron box fixed to the pole near-est the center of the section. In the subdivision of the cables, as controlled from thepower hous

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