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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CROSS-SECTION NEW BALTIMORE STATION KAIIli RAILWAY. mersed in special transformer oil, contained in a corrugated ironcase which radiates the heat rapidly. The temperature of thesetransformers rarely rises above 125 F., even on hot summer days,the three-phase alternating currenl volts and d I current al about I volts. The pressure on the direct current side can be varied slightly by means of theheld rheostat. Ml tholid brick founda-tions, resting on a concrete sub-base, and they run so quietb thai The mi1> station at .\lt. Clemens is in the same building with thedispatchers office, and the dispatchers look after the machinery.There an two zoo-kw. rotaries and three (50-kw. transformers inthis station; otherwise it is the same as Roseville. The rotaries at New Baltimore are in the main power house andli.ue been described. Ugonac is the next station, going north along the line. Thisis in the same building with the passenger and fn ims, and

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