Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lifying the wiringand connections, and also gives absolute safety, as it is impossibleto have a short circuit on the board as the positive and negativeleads are over 30 ft. apart. The arrangement is, of course, applic-able chiefly to stations of large capacity; it is used in the newstations of the St. Louis Transit Co. The board is in three tiers,mounted on galleries, viz.. the generator gallery, the feeder gallery,and the third gallery in the roof where are placed the resistances.The wiring of the board is simple and inexpensive and is madeclear in the accompanying diagram. A separate wattmeter is ofcourse provided for each generator, but there is no totalizing watt-meter for tlie station. It is held that this arrangement permits thewattmeters to work under their best conditions, which is not thenil totalizing wattmeters, especially when running the stationat light load in the early hours of the morning. There are twocircuit breakers in each generator circuit, one being placed on the
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