. The Street railway journal . apparatus is placed inside the car cab, including contactors,reversers and relays. The last three devices are all placed onslabs of insulating material, and the type T and CG rheostatsare provided with insulated bolts, holding them in boxes are used for the contactors and reversers. The reasonfor this was the fear on the part of the railway engineers thatdust could not be perfectly excluded from boxes placed underthe car. Necessary precautions have, of course, been taken toseparate the rheostats from the controlling apparatus, and alsofor their ventil
. The Street railway journal . apparatus is placed inside the car cab, including contactors,reversers and relays. The last three devices are all placed onslabs of insulating material, and the type T and CG rheostatsare provided with insulated bolts, holding them in boxes are used for the contactors and reversers. The reasonfor this was the fear on the part of the railway engineers thatdust could not be perfectly excluded from boxes placed underthe car. Necessary precautions have, of course, been taken toseparate the rheostats from the controlling apparatus, and alsofor their ventilation. The rheostats are placed high up in thecab and suitable partitions, lined with uralite, separate themfrom the remainder of the apparatus. In this way bare wiring. Street MAP SHOWING ELECTRIC EXTENSION OF THEPARlS ORLEANS RAILWAY MAIN SWITCHBOARD, IVRY POWER STATION, SHOWING LIGHTING SWITCH-HOARD BELOW GALLERY—MACHINES IN FOREGROUND FORMPART OF IVRY SUB-STATION evidently been considered of secondary importance to the ad-vantages obtained. Commutating switches similar to thoseadded to the old locomotives have been furnished with the newmachines, and the gear ratio is the same, viz: to 1. Wes-ton ammeters with a scale of 2000 amps, have been to some slight trouble to the ammeters of the originallocomotives, caused by the vibrations of the locomotives, theWeston Instrument Company has made certain modificationsin the method of support. The cabs of the new locomotives are of steel, lined withUralite insulating sheeting, and the cablingis asbestos braided, painted a slate color, re-ducing chances of abrasion by friction. Themotor and shoe leads are passed through brassflexible tubing. The construction of the newlocomo
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