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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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Text Appearing Before Image: con-verter will run non-inductively at all loads, and therefore the dropiu voltage at full load will correspond to the energy loss in thesystem, and the converter voltage will be higher at lighter loadsthan at heavier loads, therefore will vary as the load varies, andphas.e coptrpl is thui feasible only by hand regulation, that is. in systems where the load varies only slowly as in lighting cir-cuits. Reaction converters take lagging currents at all loads and thusare in general objectionable, the more so as they do not allow anyautomatic potential control < » DECORATED CARS IN AUSTIN, TEX. During the past summer a plan of decorating four of the carsof the Austin Rapid Transit Railway Company was devised byFrank E. Scovill, superintendent. The cars were prepared toorder for a lawn party and it was considered good policy to sodesign the decorations that they could be easily removed andreplaced for another like occasion. The diagram of wiring for exterior illuuiination is here given.

Text Appearing After Image: DECOKATED CARS, AUSTIN. the heavy lines indicating the trolley circuit and the lighter ones,the ground wire. The incandescent lamps were fixed to fourstrips, two of. which are semi-circular, and the connections aremade for five lamps in series. There were 250 lamps in red,white and blue used in the illumination. A star and crescentof lamps adorned the front dash. The bunting was easily at-tached by tieing with twine and tacking it to the wood workwhere it would not show.The first party was given by Dr. Morse, clerk of the supreme

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