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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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Railway Companys system have always beenof much interest on account of the exacting conditions of op-eration in the New England metropolis. As a large user ofpower, the company has always been watchful of the develop-ment of various forms of prime movers, but until recently thereciprocating steam engine has been employed to the exclusionof other motive power in all the stations of the system. In itsadherence to the supply of power from a group of allied plantsdistributed over an extensive network of direct-current feeders,the road furnishes an excellent example of efficient operationunder methods diametrically opposite from the more commonpractice of high-tension generation, transmission and conver-sion from a single large alternating-current station. As the system has developed the need of additional power incertain suburban districts has become more and more insistent,while at the same time progress has been rapid in the evolu-tion of prime movers. The steam turbine and the gas en-
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VIEW OF A TRAIN OF NINE CARS ON THE ELECTRIFIED DIVISION OF THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD one at Rockaway Park being 100 ft. x 30 ft. in size, the Duntonshed 200 ft. x 50 ft., and the one at Morris Park 200 ft. x 75ft. These sheds are large enough to accommodate trains ofeight cars, and are fitted with all necessary tools and appli-ances, the pits being fitted with compressed air pipes in orderthat pneumatic tools may be used under the cars. ORGANIZATION When it was decided three years ago to electrify the system,Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company were engaged to actas engineers and constructors for the road, the entire workbeing under the direction of George Gibbs, who acted first aselectrical engineer of the road and first vice-president of West-inghouse, Church, Kerr & Company, and afterward as chiefengineer of electric traction for the road, the general featuresof the work being under the supervision of the electrical com-mittee of the road, composed of various officials. The

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