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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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h the It is stated that during this time not a single defect ap- Oerlikon Machine Works received permission more than a peared in the insulation of either locomotive,year ago to equip a section of track between Seebach and From the illustration of the locomotive on the next page, Wettingen, a distance of over 15 miles. Up to the present, it will be noted that the current collectors comprise four flex- the electrification has been .carried from Seebach only as far ible rods mounted in pairs on longitudinal supports. These as Affoltern, a distance of 2.4 miles, and the tests mentioned supports are so placed that one pair of rods collects current below have been conducted upon this section of track. when the power wire is carried on poles on the right hand Since the last account of this road in the Street Railway side of the track, and the other pair when the power wire Journal (see April 8, 1905), a number of important changes is on the left. The methods of insulating the collecting rod
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A VIEW ALONG THE SEEBACH-WETTINGEN 15,000-VOLT, SINGLE-PHASE LINE, SHOWING THE FORM OF OVERHEADCONSTRUCTION BY CATENARIES CARRIED ON BRIDGES SPANNING THE TRACK have been made. At that time 14,000 volts were used. Thee. m. f. has since been raised to 15,000 volts. Experimentshave also been conducted upon carrying the trolley wiresin a number of ways, and the latest is by catenaries mountedon steel bridges spanning the track, upon practically the sameplan as that decided upon for the New Haven line. In fact,the view of the road shown in the accompanying engravinggives a very good idea of the future appearance of the NewHaven railroad. Experiments have also been conducted with two types oflocomotives. At the time that the article in the issue of April8 was published, the company was using a Ward-Leonardconverter locomotive, which took single-phase current at14,000 volts from the trolley wire, and had also just finished from the locomotive and its pneumatic control, were describedin the p

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