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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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eading devastation. Great advance-ment has been made of late years along this line; but costly plantsinstalled before late improvements were brought out frequentlysufTer loss from fires breaking out in most unexpected places, andcausing no little expense and anxiety. The air-cooled transformers arc equally liable to injury and burn-outs under continual overload, or when the attendant neglects tostart the air blower until hours after the load has been put on.Under such conditions fires will frequently break out. Were suchtransformers installed in a building apart from the main portion ofthe plant, the damage could be limited to that locality and easilycontrolled. Roth oil-cooled and air-cooled transformers are in some instancesplaced in a small subway, in which all approach to a fire would becut off at the stairway. All the apparatus contained in the subwayis therefore liable to loss. These might be transformers for rotaryconverters supplying current for a suburban line; in this event,
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TRACK DEPARTMENT FREIGHT CAR—UNITED RAILROADS OF SAN FRANCISCO. set up in the car, with wiring and apparatus exposed. Controll-ers, circuit breakers, etc., are also set up in this car, and so ar-ranged that they can be taken apart and examined. This caris taken from car-house to car-house for the purpose of havingcar men become familiar with the apparatus on cars. The Elmira (N. Y.) Water, Light & Railroad Co. is constructingan ice palace and winter resort at Roricks Glen, on the companyslines, and will arrange for a large skating rink. The only chargethat will be made will be the fare tlvit is charged on the street cars. should a burn-out occur, the electric line would be totally disabled.Should this take place during a snow storm, the results can beeasily foreseen. Bar conductors run in tile duct from switchboards to the dis-tributing boards and transformers reduce the fire risk. , The pro-miscuous placing of high potential fuses in vaults and subways.often within a few inches

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