. The Street railway journal . d of overcoming the difficulty three-phase system of the General Electric Company wasbrought into requisition, and the experiment was tried with suc-cess. At Lowell a three-phase high voltage generating plantis located; seven miles away, part of this current is takenthrough transforniers and rotary converters and changedinto the ordinary direct current for railway service and there years work in Europe shows that the majority of elec-tric railways have been installed by the General Electric Com-pany representatives. They are at Havre, Lyons, Bordeau
. The Street railway journal . d of overcoming the difficulty three-phase system of the General Electric Company wasbrought into requisition, and the experiment was tried with suc-cess. At Lowell a three-phase high voltage generating plantis located; seven miles away, part of this current is takenthrough transforniers and rotary converters and changedinto the ordinary direct current for railway service and there years work in Europe shows that the majority of elec-tric railways have been installed by the General Electric Com-pany representatives. They are at Havre, Lyons, Bordeauxand other cities in France; Remscheid, Hamburg, Bremen andother cities in Germany; Leeds, in England; Dublin, Ireland, andMilan, Italy. Other installations are now under way in thedifferent parts of the continent of Europe. The foregoing is a cursory sketch of the work which theGeneral Electric Company has effected during the year whichhas elapsed since the last Street Railway truly. General Electric ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE DRAWING TRAIN OUT OF BELT LINE TUNNEL - BALTIMORE, fed into the line. At Nashua there is another converting stationwhich takes the balance of the three-phase current, converts itand feeds part into the interurban railway line and part into thecity service line. This installation may be said to mark an epochin interurban service, and to-day traffic between the two citieshas largely increased and the steam railroad is already feelingthe effects. A plant on similar lines is now in course of in-stallation at Dublin, Ireland. The use of current for railroad service, generated milesaway, is also in use in the far West. At Sacramento, Cal., thecurrent which is used is generated at Folsom, twenty-four milesaway. At Portland, Ore., the railroad service is utilizing currentgenerated by a water power fourteen miles away. In each ofthese cases the three-phase system is employed, and the directcurrent for the railroad system is derived from rotary
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