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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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ra distance on each side. The wiring details of this section in-sulator are shown herewith. The two switches S, each ofwhich controls one section, can be operated by hand or insuch connection with the semaphores that the current is cutoff when the semaphore is set for a stop. The other switches, To Power , Station. ) (_ J< <fe j ;-°rg;a * JL Z?$^ Street Ry.Journal WIRING CONNECTIONS OF SECTION INSULATOR such as A2, which cuts off current from the station rails, andthe emergency short-circuiting device N are only operated byhand. On the line between Tomteboda and Stockholm it is in-tended to try out the Huber contact system, made by theMaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, of Zurich, Switzerland. As aregular service has been planned for the Stockholm-Tarfvaline, the current-collecting devices will have to be inter-changed at Tomteboda, at which place all of the collectorscan be placed in contact with the trolley wires. While thisinvolves some complicated wiring at this station, it is justi-
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Slreet Ry.Journal ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS OF SIEMENS-SCHUCKERT SINGLE-PHASE LOCOMOTIVE breakage. On the catenary divisions this protection has beeninstalled only at stations and street crossings. The trolleywire has a cross-section of 50 sq. mm, part of it round and theremainder grooved. At the Albano station special precautions have been taken fied for experimental work. A telephone system has beeninstalled along the Vartan line which can be put in circuitwith car telephones by using a hooked metal pole, as onAmerican railways. The present experiments are being conducted with two 488 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 13. High TcdbIField electric locomotives and one multiple-unit train. The Bald-win-Westinghouse locomotive was described in the StreetRailway Journal of April 15, 1905, and the Siemens-Schuckert Locomotive in the issue of Jan. 13, 1906. It maybe stated here that the first locomotive, which carries two 150-hp motors, has a draw-bar pull of 4000 kg and hauled loads u

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