Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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air shop and car house is located at Cedar-burg. This will be the operating center of the completed sys-tem. A general view of the front of the shop building accom-panies this article. The structure is of brick and the roof issupported by a steel framework. The north bay of the build-ing is two stories high, the second story for two-thirds of theway back being finished for operating offices. These offices are provided with a fireproof vault and areheated by steam from the shop boiler plant. Underneath theoffices on the first floor is a large fireproof stockroom withindependent cases containing supplies, which are accountedfor on the continuous inventory system and which are de-livered only on requisition. At the rear of the stockroom isthe machine shop, which opens on to two pit tracks extendingthe length of the building. The shop has a very completeequipment of machine tools, largely supplied by the Niles-Bement-Pond Company. It is interesting to note that this shop was completed and
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Milwaukee Northern Railway—Shop and Office Building at Cedarburg. is provided for handling the oil to and from the cases. On thelow-tension side of the transformers the rotary converters areprotected by open fuses mounted on a wooden rack in thetransformer compartment. These fuses should prevent anytrouble from being transferred between the machine andtransformer rooms. The transformers are provided with tapsfor starting the rotaries on half voltage from the alternating-current end. An 8-panel switchboard in each substation comprises twoalternating-current machine panels; two alternating-currentstarting panels; two direct-current rotary panels, and twofeeder panels equipped with instruments of Westinghousemanufacture. There are also mounted on the base of theboard two General Electric recording wattmeters. The switch-board of the Cedarburg substation has a third feeder panelcontrolling the current supplied to the nearby shop and yards.Circuit-breakers are provided with reverse-curre

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