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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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and a total output meter. The field controlrheostats are mounted on the struts supporting the switch-board and are remotely controlled through hand wheels in-stalled at the approximate center of each rotary panel. All lighting circuits are taken off a special 15,000-to-110-volt a.c. lighting transformer, and after passing througha central control cabinet board, they lead to the variouslamps through pipe conduit. The lamp fixtures for general 412 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLII, No. ii. illumination are swung from the roof slab and individuallamps in pipe fixtures are supplied where required. In addition to the 6-ton overhead bridge crane equippedwith a hand-operated trolley for use in maintenance andrepairs, a compressed-air system also has been installed. AG.E. type CP.-28 air compressor set has been placed atone end of the gallery, and a pipe system with taps and hoseconnections reaches all points in the station where air maybe needed in cleaning machines. To keep the electrical
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Fort Worth Substation—Plan and Cross-Section engineer advised of the amount of current in the cablesheaths of the underground system, a Westinghouse Model80 voltmeter has been installed between it and the ground.Daily readings of this instrument are taken and recorded.Any electrolytic action on the cable sheaths may be notedfrom the difference in potential and proper precautionstaken before a serious breakdown occurs. PASSING OF THE DOUBLE-DECK STATION AT FORTWAYNE. IND. The electrical energy for the operation of the FortWayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company lines hasbeen generated in what is known as a double-deck stationat Fort Wayne, Ind., but in the course of work of rehabili-tation at Fort Wayne this double-deck feature will be doneaway with. The excavation and the concrete work for the40-ft. by 100-ft. addition to the front of the building areunder way. In the completed plant all turbines will be seton the ground floor. The two twenty-five-cycle machines which are now

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