Identifier: electricrailway341909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nto Cleveland. Important features of the construction and operation were:The early installation of the d.c.-a.c. generators in the powerhouses, having in mind the future use of transmission lines,substations, etc.; the installation and use of No. 0000 trolleywire and No. 0000 feeder wire; the location of the two power .stations 12 miles apart and tied together, so that they couldfeed into the same feeder wires; the dispatching of cars bytelephones from the dispatchers office, together with installa-tion of telephones in booths at the sidings, as well as the equip-ment of each car with a car telephone, and the installation alsoof connection boxes located on the poles every 1000 ft.; thedevelopment in air brakes, ranging from axle-driven compres-sors to independent motor-driven compressors for straight airapplication, and also automatic air application; the develop-ment in trucks from rigid bolster trucks to swing bolster trucks;the development from the use of two motors to an equipment
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