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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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ed so that the fourth wire can be usedwhen there is trouble on any of the other three. Locke No. 3brown porcelain insulators, mounted 011 iron pins with woodtips boiled in paraffinc, are used. Cross-arms arc standard, 3^4 ins. x 4 ins. x 42 ins. Frequent troubles with iron cross-arm braces has lead to the use of a triangular-shaped woodbrace soaked in carbolineum to prevent cracking. Poles arespaced 100 ft. apart, and in ordinary cases the lines are usedon the poles carrying the trolley brackets, telephone wires,feeders, etc. The high-tension line supplying the southerndivision of the system runs across country from Elyria toBrunswick, a distance of about 18 miles. PORTABLE SUB-STATIONDuring the recent unsettled condition of the power equipmentthe company maintained, to great advantage, a floating sub-station. This consisted of a sub-station equipment installed ina plain and heavy car body, which was built in the companysrepair shops. It was fitted with M. C. B. freight trucks without
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HIGH-TENSION CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND LIGHTNINGARRESTERS SUB-STATION motors, and it was pushed to any portion where extra power•was needed. For some weeks prior to the writing of thisarticle it was located at the car house in Berea, where it washelping out the Rockport power station in supplying the north-ern portion of the southern division of the system. Unfor-tunately, a few nights ago, the car house, with all its contents,including the floater, was destroyed by fire. As the car wasfound to be of immense value in maintaining the voltage atpoints where there were excessive loads, it is probable that itwill be replaced as soon as possible. The arrangement of theequipment and the wiring of the car are shown in the accom-panying plan. The high-tension lines enter through holes onthe outside near the top and pass to long knife switches, andfrom there to three 110-kw round-type oil-cooled Stanley trans-formers. Westinghousc low-equivalent lightning arresterswere mounted hack of the transfo

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