Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the apparatus very thorough. The ap-paratus is arranged in the following general order across thesub-stations: High-tension lines, high-tension switching ap-paratus, transformers, rotaries, direct-current switching ap-paratus. Along the station there is a succession of completeunits made up as described above, the controlling board beinglocated at the center of the station. The concealing of thewires necessitated the use of wall chases for the high-tensionlines and determined the use of transformers having highand low-tension terminals underneath the floor. The switchesand circuit breakers for both the high-tension alternating andthe low-tension direct current are all electrically operated. At the sub-stations the high-tension current is transformedand converted into direct current at 666 volts for delivery tothe railway circuits. The main equipment of each sub-stationconsists of three rotaries and their transformers and sub-sidiary apparatus. The arrangements provide for a future in-
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TWO ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND TRAILER LEAVING THE KINGSBRIDGE STATION Bronx Park as well as to the Port Morris power station andto Kingsbridge from the Harlem division line. From theKingsbridge terminus of these conduits an overhead line runsto the Glenwood power station and sub-station. Cabletowers for the overhead lines are located at HighBridge, Kingsbridge and Glenwood. In the initial electriczone, including on the Hudson division the line as far asKingsbridge, there are 17 miles of line to be electrified—13miles from the Grand Central Station to Wakefield on theHarlem division and 4 miles from Mott Haven to Kings-bridge on the Hudson division. In this territory there are73 miles of main and 12 miles of yard tracks, a total of 85miles of track. In the entire electric zone, which will takein a total of 52 miles of line, there will be 224 miles df mainand 68 miles of yard tracks, or a total track mileage of 292miles. All tracks within this territory are laid with 100-lb.rails. All

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