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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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s have beenbuilt using this system of traction, and examples have notbeen lacking of direct-current roads with potentials from1000 to 2400 volts. All of the more important of these in-stallations have been described in the columns of the circuits in cables to avoid interference from the railwaycurrents and to decrease the maintenance troubles due tohaving such wires on the poles. The freight service onthis railway is still handled by steam locomotives. The Salzburg-Berchtesgaden Railway is a high-ten-sion, direct-current line owned by the Bavarian governmentand the Salzburg Tramway Company, of Austria. TheBavarian section is operated at 900 volts and the Austriandivision, which is mainly in the city of Salzburg, at 750volts. Bow collectors are used. The freight business isstill carried on with steam locomotives. The Filder Railway is a Siemens & Halske line runningfrom Stuttgart, the principal city of Bavaria, to the Filderplateau. This is a 600-volt line using an ordinary trolley
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TERMINAL YARD AND STATION .\T BRIEG, THE SWIS.S END OF THE SIMPLON TUNNEL Street Railway Journal, but it may not be without inter-est to touch briefly upon a few points which have not beenwidely published. HIGH-TENSI0.\ OR OTHER SPECIAL DIRECT-CURRENT RAILWAYS The Rheinuferbahn, running between Coli:)gne a;id Bonn,Germany, is an interurban railway, 28 kilometers (17.3miles) long, with a trolley potential of 990 volts on the in-terurban division and 550 volts in Cologne. A generaldescription of this line was published in the May 5, 1906,issue of the Street Railway Journal and a detailed de-scription of the motors in the issue of Feb. i, 1908, butthe illustration on the next page of the catenary construc-tion on the double-track division is presented because of itsartistic and substantial design. A novel feature is thecarrying of telephone block signal and other low-amperage for about 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) between Stuttgart andDegerloch. There are also five other divisions on thepla

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