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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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(_p^ iVZc^L S /f f? P/./j/1/r Aw£ B/r£-yf/<£/f DI.\GR.\M OP OVERHE.Vn WIRING. ban line. The building is of frame about 50 ft. long by 30 wideand two stories high, the upper floor being fitted up as an apartmentfor the keeper and his family. On the first floor there is a batteryroom the full width of the house 38 ft. long and in the front aswitchboard room. The board is of black slate and contains twopanels, upon the right one of which are the following instruments: The lighting of the park grounds and buildings is supplied byalternating current from the power station, there being two trans-formers for the purpose of stepping down the pressure to no volts.The left-hand panel has five alternating current wattmeters tomeasure the power consumed in the lighting and five double-throwswitches to control the distributing circuits; one for the roller •Vl LL 11 STORAGK B.MTKRV BIII.DINO .\T ST.SNTOX P.\RK.
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—a circuit-breaker, a voltmeter, an ammeter, a multiple-pointswitch for placing the voltmeter on either the battery or the line,and two single-pole single-throw switches, and a single-pole double-throw switch by the manipulation of which the battery may be cutout and the feeder allowed to supply the line clear to the end, orthe feeder may be cut out and the battery connected to supply theline above that point, or the battery may be connected to float onthe line, giving or taking current to balance the fluctuations of coaster, one for the merry-go-round, one for the casino, one for thesouth park, and woods, and one for the north park and lake. Car Barn. For convenient access to all the lines the car barn could scarcelybe better situated than at the intercession of 6th and 7th Sts. Itis 43 ft. wide by 200 ft. long and of complete fire-proof construc-tion, i. e., brick walls, slate roof, steel trusses, beams and columns, Feb. 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 101 slag floor and Kinncar

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