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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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n thegallery floor are located two General Electric 250-kw.. 25 cycle ro-tary converters and six oil-cooled transformers with switchboardapparatus. The steam plant is only used at present as an auxiliary,the converters being driven from the Llanerch station when trafficrequirements are not heavy. On the completion of the line to Clifton Heights all lines cast ofNewtown Sq. will be operated from the Llanerch station, and thesteam plant at Ridley Creek will operate the main line west ofNewtown Sq.—a point about at the center of the road. The ro-taries are operated at a line tension of 15,000 volts through step-down transformers. The boiler room here is equipped with largeconcrete storage bins for coal, which is hauled from the main binsat Llanerch by the companys specially designed coal cars. The building is on a solid rock foundation and is fireproofthrou.ghout. It was designed by and erected under the supervisionof Messrs. Franklin & Clarke, civil engineers, of Philadelphia. All
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THOMAS SIDI.NG. TK.VCK Xt.\K WINCHESTER. 556 STREET RAILWAY REMEW (Vol, XV. No. 9. the flcctric.il. steam work and pipe were designed under the super-vision of the companys superintendent and chief engineer. Track.The entire roadway and track is being reconstructed, and as far The Ardmore division is Ijcing double-tracked about one-third ofits length, and many heavy curves and grades arc being eliminated.The Philadelphia and Garrettford extension to Clifton will, ex-cept for the gage, 5 ft. 2!4in., be built according to steam railroadstandards throughout. The extension will cross the Pennsylvania

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