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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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small hours in the form of 600-volt single-phase energytransmitted to the sub-stations through the trolley wire, usingthe regular ground return as one side of the circuit. In thisscheme the most distant sub-station is about 60 miles away,on the borders of Nashua, but the total load for lighting sel-dom exceeds 8 kw or 9 kw. On roads where current is avail-able for moving cars at any time of night the lighting problemcannot be said to exist, but some provision is desirable in allcases, either by local arrangement, the use of large acetyleneor oil lamps, or the installation of a small generating unit atthe main power house which can be run with fair earning atlight loads. ioo8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIL No. 26. IMPROVEMENTS ON THE ST. LOUIS & SUBURBAN RAILWAY Occasioned partly l)y the Worlds Fair, just previous to theopening of the exposition, the power house of the St. Louis Iti-ramoi-IlisliInmN MAP OFTHE ST.LOTJIS & SUBURBAN RAILWAY Scale H inch J mile. August, J905.
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MAP OF TERRITORY- TRAVERSED BY THE ST. LOUIS & SUBURBAN RAILWAY & Suburban Railway Company was overhauled and new gen-erating units were installed, several new cars added to theequipment and new extensions of the lines were made to thefair grounds. Because of the preparations made at the timefor handling visitors to the Exposition the company has notsince been compelled to make any extensive improvementson the portion of the line in the city. However, the locationof factories and the building of suburban residences in the The more extensive of these improvements has been the re-construction and double tracking of the Florissant-Fergusondivision, together with the erection of a new sub-station onthe line to meet the demands of the heavier loads occasionedby the increased number of cars operated.The relative location of this division, aswell as that of the newly built sub-station,may be understood by reference to the ac-companying map of the system. The trackimprovements consist

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