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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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t traffic. It has alength of 39 km, with trackage rights within the city of 3 km.Four and two-axle passenger and freight cars are in use andhave a speed, within city limits of 20 km, and on lines whichwere formerly operated by steam of 45 km per hour. The bowtrolley and 550 volts are used on this road, and the equipmentwas furnished by Schuckert & Company, of Niirnberg. In thecity streets the motors are operated in series, and in the out-skirts of the city in parallel. The second of these roads is the Wiener Stadtbahn, on r March 7, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 355 which experiments were made with various systems, with theobject of replacing steam as a motive power. This road liesjust outside of Vienna, forming a sort of semicircle around thecity. A 3.8 km section of the road was electrically equippedabout three years ago, and has been in operation ever since.The road is owned by the State, and the electrical equipmentwas furnished by .Siemens & ITalske. The double-track ex-
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TIIREE-PHASE HIGH-TENSION OVERHEAD CROSSING, BUDA-PEST EXPERIMENTAL RAILWAY perimental road has two intermediate stations, 700 m apart, anaverage grade of 0.8 per cent and a maximum grade of 1.8per cent. The electric trains are run, of course, without inter-rupting steam traffic. Trains are made up of two or threemotor cars and an equal number of trail cars, and the motorsare controlled by a system somewhat similar to that used onthe Berlin elevated railway, and described in this paper forJan. 3. The third rail is located between the ser\ice rails, andis supported on porcelain or ebonite insulators. The motors are shunt wound, of 80 hp each, and are mounteddirectly on the axles. Shunt-wound motors are employed sothat they might be used as generators when the train is coast-ing or running down grade. It has been found that 10 percent of the power can thus be saved. The most modern of the three Vienna roads, having been putin operation in 1902, is a three-phase, high-tension road atWoll

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