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Identifier: streetrailwayj261905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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A TYPE OF SMALL STATION WAITING ROOM ON THE PETA-LUMA & SANTA ROSA RAILWAY battery has a capacity of 480 amps. A General Electric boosteris used in connection with a carbon regulator to regulatemomentary fluctuations in load on the battery. The batteryroom was specially built, and has a concrete floor painted withP. & B. paint. The tanks are of a new type, having flat leadtops, which permit them to be filled higher and with less dan-ger of slopping over. The tanks are doubly insulated from the
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THE PETALUMA & SANTA ROSA RAILWAY COMPANYS QUARRY,SHOWING TWO MOTOR CARS COUPLED TO CRUSHEDROCK TRAIN floor by porcelain and glass. The battery was installed by theElectric Storage Battery Company. At Petaluma an additional current is supplied to the railwayby the California Gas & Electric Corporation from a motor-generator set. This set consists of a 440-hp Stanley syn-chronous motor, driving a 350-kw Bullock generator at 360r.p.m. The motor connections at Petaluma are 4000 volts star,while those at Sebastopol are 2300 volts delta. The passenger service of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Rail- 14 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. i. way is handled by ten 45-ft. semi-convertible cars, manufac-tured by the American Car Company, of St. Louis, and W. H.Holman & Company, of San Francisco. These cars are ableto maintain a speed of 35 m.p.h. on the level, and contain bag-gage and smoking compartments. Each is equipped with fourGeneral Electric 70-motors and two 28-A controll

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  • bookid:streetrailwayj261905newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:26
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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