Identifier: electricrailway551920newy (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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icient. Service is frequentlyimpaired, and the companies suffer losses while the publicsuffers inconvenience until rates can be readjusted. The public is usually in no mood to put up vnth poor serv-ice or with facilities outgrown since war days, and becauseall other service and commodities have been and are in-creasing in price, the public is resentful of new increases.On the other hand, public service companies provide commonservice and rightfully expect some measure of co-operationfrom the public. They must, therefore, find sufficient income to meet in-creasing labor and material costs to maintain and improvepre-war standards of service. At this period their problemis especially difficult because maintenance and replacementmaterials, as well as operating materials, such as coal forexample, have increased in price. 248 Electric Railway journal Vol. 55, No. 5 AutomaticSubstationson thePacificElectric Operation of thesesubstations has r e-sulted in uniformityof load and powereconomies.
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No. 1—Plastered brickbuilding for automaticsubstation at Wilmington. No. 2—Interior of theWilmington automaticsubstation. No.3—Switchboard andcontrol apparatus in Wil-mington substation. No. 4 —1000-kw. ro-tary converter and auto-matic control equipmentin S1 a u s o n Junctionautomatic substation. No. 5 — Rotary con-verter, transformer andautomatic control equip-ment in Torrancesubstation. No. 6—Front view ofthe switchboard in theTorrance substation. January 31, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 249 Automatic Substations on the Pacific Electric Three of 1000-Kw. Capacity Are Now in Service with Two Others Under Construction—Load Uniformity and Increased Power Economies Are Secured THE Pacific Electric Ry. has recently put in servicethree automatic substations, and has two moreunder construction. The three already completedare of 1000-kw. capacity and are located at Wilmington,Slauson and Torrance. Of the other two, that at Her-mosa will be 1000 kw. and that in Los Angeles wi

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