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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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change and handed back to her. He skirmished aroundand got the requisite change from other passengers, andreturning handed it to the woman, who handed him a billfolded, which the conductor thrust into his pocket withoutlooking at it. The woman soon left the car. When thebill was unfolded and examined it proved to be one dollar,and the fare collector was just nine dollars out. BRISTOL MAY SUPPLY POWER FOR THETRAMWAY. Current for the two lines now operated electrically by theBristol Tramw ay Company is generated by the companysown plant. In view of the probable conversion of theremaining lines to electricity, the municipality is takingsteps to preserve its monopoly of electric power supply, moreespecially as the economy of operation of the citys lightingplant would be subserved by a day load. It is proposed toinstall four 500-horsc-power generators. Judge Campbell, of San Francisco, has decided that it is amisdemeanor for a passenger to give a transfer ticket away. rs4 (^fettf^oiU^j^yw*
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FIGURE I—STEP UP TRANSFORMERS AT NIAGARA. TRANSFORMERS FOR THE NIAGARAFALLS-BUFFALO TRANSMISSION. We publish elsewhere in this issue a description of thetransmission from Niagara Falls to Buffalo for the BuffaloRailway. The accompanying engravings show the trans-formers, both rotary and static, used at each end of the line.These are all the work of the General Electric Company.Figure i shows the two 1,250-horse-power step up trans-formers at Niagara. These are located in a transformerhouse across the canal from the power house, and are placed over an air-tight chamber. Each has a capacity of 933 kilo-watts and stands 94 inches high on a base 64 by 56 inches.The weight of each is 25,000 pounds. They are cooled bydriving a blast of cold air up through the core and coils.The blast is furnished by a large blower driven by a 5-horse-power motor. In these transformers the two phase currentgenerated by the dynamos in the power house at 2,200 voltsis changed to a three phase current of i 1,

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