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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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om 11,000 volts to 475 volts. DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHTS OF THE TEST TRAINSThe accompanying diagram illustrates the governing dimen-sions and weights of both locomotives. The weights of thecars were as follows: No. TrainI Locomotive. Total 6-Car Train Electric Train 3 4 S 6 Locomotive Total.... 1,0601,0701,0921,097 1-55°1,558 1,060 lOIjQOO 1,070 100,400 1,082 106,200 1,092 100,100 1,097 104,650 1,55° 102,800 1,552 106,000 1,558 104,750 200,500 513.6 tons 101,900100.400100,100104,650102,800 104,750 200,500 407.5 tons No. I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Locomotive Total... I 2 3 4 5 6 Locomotive Total .. Steam Train Car No. 2,5271,5471,5341,5211,0691,0991,5631,513 Weight, Lbs.(No Load). 79,90086,10087,80084,50086,30087,40086,40086,700342,000 513 tons 2,527 70,900 1,547 86,100 1,534 87,800 1,521 84,500 1,069 86,300 1,099 87,400 342,000 427 tons AVERAGE VOLTAGE DURING ACCELERATION Runs Series Series-Multple ■ Multiple A 520620600680650600 540520540680600620 235275330515420 455 B C D E F -7-0^M<4-l-l%^
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-Total Weight,Locomotive Only, Jlfi.fKK) Iba -Grand Total,Locoinotive Complete 342,000 Ibs- Street Ry. Journal DIAGRAM OF COMPARATIVE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION,ELECTRIC AND STEAM LOCOMOTIVES stalled at its Schenectady plant a 2000-kw, three-phase, 25-cycle Curtis turbo-generator, delivering 11,000 volts to theline. A special high-tension transmission line has been con-structed for the intervening distance of about 5 miles to a It will be noted that, due to the restricted cross section ofconductors, the voltage dropped during acceleration consider-ably lower than will obtain in actual practice within the elec-tric zone in the neighborhood of New York. Therefore the May 13, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 867 results obtained in this comparative test are much less favor-able for tiie electric locomotive than will be secured in actualpractice. SCHEDULE OF RUNSRun A.—The Pacific type steam locomotive had aneight-car train with a total weight, including the locomotive,of 513 tons, as compared w

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