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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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former of the same capacity. On the second floor of eachtransformer station there are installed the lightning arrestersand disconnecting switches. There are no automatic switchesof any type in these stations, as they are controlled only throughthe switchboard in the power station. There is nothing at thestation which requires constant attention and only occasionalinspection will be necessary. This does away entirely with theexpense usually incident to the r.otary sub-station of other sys-tems, which, if three men are employed, would aggregate about$6 per day. The annual saving in wages on the three trans-former stations between Indianapolis and Rushville made pos-sible by the alternating-current system on this basis, wouldamount therefore to $6,570, or a total annual saving on the tentransformer stations between Indianapolis and Cincinnati inwages alone of $21,900. The entire electrical equipment of the transformer stationswas furnished by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
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TRANSFORMER STATION AT REEDVILLE, IND. Company, and was installed under the supervision of Sargent& Lundy. The disconnecting switches were made from a de-sign specially prepared for this service by these engineers. The power house serves as an additional transformer station,and contains two 300-kw lowering transformers, wound for3300 volts primary and 550 volts secondary circuits, which areused to feed that portion of trolley included within the limitsof the city of Rushville. The diagram on page 305 illustrates schematically the gen-eral arrangement of apparatus and circuits. The two-phasepower circuit indicated is a provision for a four-wire power circuit, which it is proposed to run from the power house inRushville to the electric line between Indianapolis and Shelby-ville, which is at present operated by direct current from its ownpower house through rotary converter sub-stations and direct-current railway motors. It is expected at an early date tooperate this branch also from

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