Identifier: railwaylocomotiv28newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lectric transportation has been com-pleted on the Pennsylvania railroad be-tween Broad Street station, Philadelphia,and Paoli. The work embraces the elec-trification of about 20 route miles, withabout 93 miles of track. The system iswhat is known as the overhead catenarytrolley system; the power is supplied di- nection between the power house and thesub-station consisting of armored sub-marine cables under the river. From the sub-station there are four44.000-volt single phase transmissionlines. Two lead into the West Philadel-phia sub-station, and two of them con-tinue on to the Paoli sub-stations. Thetransmission lines are carried on brackets electric service without structuralchanges. This was made possible by thefact that the requirements for mountingelectric apparatus on the cars had beenthoroughly considered at the time whenthe steel car was introduced on the rail-road. There are 93 of these standardall-steel cars in the service, 82 of whichare passenger cars, 9 are combined pas-
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TYPE OF ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AND TRAIN ON THE ELECTRIFIED PORTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND PAOLI, PA. rectly to the trains from overhead wires.In this case 11,000-volt, single phase 25-cycle power is transmitted from thepower station of the Philadelphia ElectricCompany from their main power stationon the easterly bank of the Schuylkillriver about a mile south of West Phila-delphia passenger station. It is deliveredto the railroad company at a station onthe westerly bank of the river, the con- on the side of the elevated structure be-tween the Bridge sub-station and tinWest Philadelphia sub-station. Beyondtliis point the lines are carried on thecatenary supporting structures on bothsides of the tracks. An interesting feature of the electrifi-cation is that the standard suburban steelcoaches of the type used in the regularsteam service have been used for the senger and baggage, while 2 combinedbaggage and mail cars have been equipped.All of the 93 cars arc mo

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