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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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candcscenl cuit-breaker. in addition to tlic overload breaker, .\ large gong,which can be heard in all parts of the room, is arranged to givewarning as soon as a circuit-breaker opens. The board also con-tains a Weston station voltmeter, supported on a bracket at theleft end of the board, a Thomson intergrating wattmeter at thebottom of one of the distributing panels and tank lightning arrest-ers. The negative bus bar connects with the rails and the positivewith the feeders to the trolley wires. .\n accompanying diagramshows very clearly the arrangement of lines, cables and switch-boards for the street railway work, and for the arc and incandescentlighting. The incandescent lighting board, built by the General ElectricCo., is 8 ft. high by ij ft. long and contains two panels for thealternators and three for distributing lines. It. is provided withintegrating w-attntetcrs. a synchronizing outfit to serve the twoaheniators, and for tach machine a .arnnnd detector, an ammeter - /ao-o —
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PHOPERTY or TUE STEUHENVILLI! TRACTION & LIC.HT CO. lighting and arc lighting, each being placed as near as possibleto the machine with which it is associated, as the plan indicates. The railway board was built by the Weslinghouse company andcontains 6 panels of bine Vermont marble. 90 in, high, 24 in, wideand 2 in. thick—four for generators and Iwn for the distributingsystem. Each of the generator panels includes a circuit-breaker,an ammeter, a voltmeter receptacle, two single-pole dynamo switchesand a tiehl rheostat. The c(;Ualizer switches instead of beingplaced on the Iwiard are Mip;M>rtcd on pedestals near their respect-ive generators. The extreme left-hand panel serves the Wesling-house generator, the next three the Crocker-Wheeler machines andthe two right-hand panels contrfJ four distributing lines, two each.One feeder supplier the city lines, anither the inlerurban line and>toragc battery, the third the Soulli Ponrlh St, line and the fourththe Pleasant Heights lin

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