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Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of track ; that is, about67 per cent of double track. The narrow-gage railwayshave only 12 per cent of double track, 8 per cent being usedfor depot track. For standard gag* the capacity of the gen-erators amounted to 85,000 kw, that of the station equaliz-ing batteries 20,000 kw. The narrow-gage roads had gen-erators of 42,000 kw capacity and station equalizing batter-ies of 12,000 kw. These proportions show that the operationof the latter roads is more difficult than those of standard 684 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 23. gage. Generally the capacity of the station storage bat-teries is understood to be the amount of electricity whichcan be given during one hour without overloading. Thestatistics from which this table is derived does not give thecapacity of generators and batteries for several railways,but the writer has, with the aid of other statistics and hisown observation, made out the given numbers for the gen-erators out of the known operating effect, the capacity of
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MOTOR CAR WITH ADJUSTABLE CANOPY FOR MOTORMANAND CONDUCTOR IN MUNICH the batteries being supposed to have the same proportionsto that of the generators as on the other roads. There areequalizing batteries up to 4200 kw in one system at BerlinIn Germany there are no three-phase roads with the ex-ception of the high-speed Zossen railway, on which the200-km per hour experiments are now being made. Onthis road the three-phase current is delivered direct to themotors. There are several roads, however, using three-phase transmission with rotary sub-stations. The best ex-

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo191902newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • streetcar
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:703
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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