Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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ago, owing to the great expansion in their business, theBall Engine Company, Erie, Pa., were forced to erect alarge and complete machine shop which was filled withthe latest and most modern improved tools. No idea wasentertained at the time that any further increase wouldbe necessary for several years to come, but the demandfor the latest improved Ball engines, built by this com-pany, has been so great, especially for electric railwaywork, that already the makers of the engine have beenagain compelled to make a further extension of the samebuilding. This extension which is now under way willbe built on the gallerj plan the same as the balance ofthe building. It will contain, among other valuable feat-ures, the most complete testing blocks and apparatus inthe country, and will be capable of testing engines ofvery large capacity. Every engine that leaves the worksof the Ball Engine Company is thoroughly tested andguaranteed to give satisfaction under the most unfavor-able circumstances.
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COL. \VM. H. SINCLAIR, President Galveston City RaiUay Company, Galveston, Te 373 THE EDISON CONTROLLING TABLE. THE matter of facility and rapidity of control ofelectric power generators is not one of the leastpoints in electric railway practice.Until recently the large switchboard has been employed,necessitating extreme agility on the part of the electricianin charge to bring the output of his generators to thedesired point, and this plan has been found not only cum-bersome, but e.\pensi\e. Improvements were thereforelooked for. In order to secure a thorough, effective and rapid con-trol of the generators in an electric railway station, a nc;wdevice has been gotten up known as the Railway Con-trolling Table. On this are mounted all the regulatingand indicating apparatus, in the most compact and con- tion. The ampere meters are of the standard Edisontype, the solenoid of bar copper, highly polished, beingmounted directly onto the marble. The covers are ofpolished brass with moulded ed

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