Identifier: electricrailwayr162amer (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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, like other statistics,would be liable to be incorrectly used. Intcrurban roads usually have two trolley wires, and as ayiio,iMii)-C. M. feeder (.insulated) is the largest solid (notstranded) wire which can be readily handled, it is quite fre-quently used, and therefore tabulated. .•\llowancc is made for sag. Resistance is based on hard-drawn wire. The tables require no explanation, except that for lossother than 10 per cent the cross section and weight and costwill be inversely proportional. Tables which, for the reason.■stated, are not presented are as follows: Cost of pole lines, various types. Cost of sub-stations,various sizes and numbers, and type of statics, and size andnumber of rotaries, high tension lightning arresters, wiring,buildings. Cost of power-houses of various types complete and perkilowatt. In some cases curves are more convenient fur calculationthan tables, but not always. ® y<Sl*f(4Sa 7M0 600Q 300i iSOO ■ioaoLOQO i.*t6(iro 90 ^ /=aty,sr- /^c/<:?/*-.
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5 10 /s- za Z.-S- jo ^r ^o /s- ^a ss fo 9^ o^ (^fO X0 JO -to iv itO TO 90 90 /09 no /iff /ja ua /sa ao /20 /dj t9o zoo (3)Chart No. 1 (Appendix B). required to deliver lar.ge quantities of power to a small num-ber of units. As a result, the alternating current motor system is moreespecially adapted to the interurban roads where first costmust be the minimum and where the number of cars oper-ating is comparatively small, and also to the operation oftrunk lines, freight roads, etc., where there are a small num-ber of heavy trains to be moved, and, therefore, in a generalway, for interurban roads in sparsely settled districts. Onthe other hand, the direct current equipment is preferablefor the city road, the elevated road and suburban roads withheavy traffic and where the number of trains is large. The interurban road, which is equipped with the single-phase trolley is in a position to handle freight in large unitsto much better advantage than the road hav

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