Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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battery for operating the switches and lighting,and a high-tension room which contains the 10,000-volt and60,000-volt switches, and the oil and water resistances forthe lighting and high-tension discharge protective appara-tus. The horns for the latter and the 60,000-volt busbarsare placed on the upper floor. In addition to this equipment,the switch room contains a small motor-generator set andtelephone. The two main transformers are placed in individual cellswhich were carefully designed to insure clean air for cool- equipment and protective devices by the Siemens-SchuckertCompany. OVERHEAD LINE CONSTRUCTION The overhead lines between Bitterfeld and Raguhn werefurnished by the Allgemeine Company, while the sectionfrom Raguhn to Dessau was installed by the Siemens-Schuckert Company. Throughout the entire system greatcare was exercised in designing the supporting structuresto give the locomotive engineers a clear view of signal in-dications. For this reason, trusses were avoided in the
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Dessau-Bitterfeld Railway—Overhead Construction Over Yard Tracks and Turntable ing the transformer oil. The cool air comes from belowthrough metal gratings and the hot air escapes throughventilators at the top. The transformers can be moved outof the cells over tracks within reach of a crane for readydismantling. They are built for. 15-cycle, single-phase ser- catenary bridges wherever possible. The particulars in theremaining paragraphs of this article relate to the overheadwork of the Allgemeine Company. This companys contact line is of simple catenary design,the trolley wire being suspended at distances of 19.7 ft. by y82 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 19. hangers from a wire rope catenary. The catenary bridgesare about 246 ft. apart. In most cases ordinary channel ironcross-girders are attached by means of hook bolts to thepoles or towers erected on both sides of the track. Thecross-girders on greater spans are held by tie-rods or are

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