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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r systems, which restrictions of course varywith the laws of different state-, questions connected with insur-ance rules and certain technical considerations must be met, beforetraction plants can engage in the commercial distribution of lightand power. The almost exclusive use of the single trolley system,with rails and other return conductors in direct contact with theearth, renders it unsafe, as a matter of life and tire ri-k, to put thewiring of buildings generally into electrical connection with thedynamos at the power houses of street railways. Insurance rules,in recognition of these conditions, prohibit the introduction of cir-cuits from street railway lines into insured buildings, except thoseused for street car purposes. The vast majority of electric traction systems in the UnitedStates operate with direct current dynamos at 500 to 600 volts, con-nected one terminal to the trolley wire feeder- and the other termi-nal to the rails. Two wire circuit- directly from these dynamos
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INTKRIRIIAN CAR FOR CINCINNATI CM PAN Y-Jlill X STEPIIKNNON CO. n the Booking 1 partment arc longitudinal and built of spring cane. In both compartments the interior finish is of inlaidmahogany. The designs used in the panels over the doors are quiteelaborate anil all the molding- are also inlaid. ELECTRIC LIGHTING BY STREET RAILWAYSYSTEMS. BY Al rON 11 ADAMS. No less than five bill- are now before the Legislatun in treel railwaj to do electriclighting in t! id town- through which tin 1 Mi. 1, 1 also a bill before the same body, giving the privilege in generalil I 1 lighting in trie lighting system! do not .■ ment in M ply an in-tame of the larger one throughout the United States, looking to the Supply of.Li from str.ii railway tatio dpoint of the general publii lighting by linl) di irabli m pa •1 into many luburb where there is no public iply. A load of 1.11: 11.,11.11 \ motoi would ly l»- of gi treet rail* Id afford .1 large income il .1 comparative!) ■crea • mum d

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