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Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
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
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mote-control motor-operated type,similar to the feeder switches, but placed on the opposite side of thebus-bar compartments and connected to the bus-bars in a similarway but with a position exactly the reverse of that of the feederswitches. The storage battery cells for operating the oil switches arc placedin the battery compartment shown in the basement view, which isbuilt of brick wdth soapstone shelves and wooden doors. It encloses 56 Chloride .Accuiniilalor cells set in sand licid in wooden traysmounted on glass knobs. There are five oil switches on the ni:ichine side of the bus-barcompartments and three on the feeder side. Two of the latter, ashas been explained, ;irc for the inconiing liigb-lcnsion feeder cables;the third is for the control of the outgoing higlipi)teiiti;d line, whichfeeds the Willow Grove sub station of this same line of track.This latter inentiofled switch is directly opposite the base of thewire tower shown in tin- ixiirinr .nul plan view-- •! hi- building.
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RE,\R VIEW OF SWITCHEO.SRP. From the lower side of the switch the high-potential wires are car-vied ill separate duct-wa>s through the floor and building wallinto the base of the wire tower. The entry through the wall intothe wire tower is made by means of three Locke wall insulators setinto the stonework. From the wall insulators each phase rises ina separate brick compartment to a Tv-pe-7, Westinghouse choke coil.These coils are held on a wooden rack supported by standard lineinsulators. Above the choke coils Xo. 0000 aluminum wires risein the three separate cells to connect with the high-potential wiresbrought in from the out-of-door line through Locke wall insulators. >44 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (V<.i.. XV. No. 9. This construction is clearly shown in the exterior view of the sub-station. Above the choke coils, taps are made from each phase toa bank of Westinghouse low equivalent lightning arresters mountedon the wire tower wall opposite the choke coils. Between the bus-bar

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