. The street railway review . i^M^^ LUGANO—THKEIi PHASK ELECTKIC ROAD. currents for street railways are the following: It is pos-sible to serve an extensive network of track at a lowcost for conductors and with an insignificant loss of. CARS ON THREE PHASE ELECTRIC ROAD—LUGANO, SWITZERLAND. for an interruption of the current to take place in bothtrolle3s at the same time when passing points of suspen-sion or curves. It follows from this that sparking is power. As alternating currents can be transformedwith very little loss and the transformers require nolooking after, a current of high
. The street railway review . i^M^^ LUGANO—THKEIi PHASK ELECTKIC ROAD. currents for street railways are the following: It is pos-sible to serve an extensive network of track at a lowcost for conductors and with an insignificant loss of. CARS ON THREE PHASE ELECTRIC ROAD—LUGANO, SWITZERLAND. for an interruption of the current to take place in bothtrolle3s at the same time when passing points of suspen-sion or curves. It follows from this that sparking is power. As alternating currents can be transformedwith very little loss and the transformers require nolooking after, a current of high tension can be produced (^{jwdj^dWisyJ^jfim/ 391 at the power station and conducted to the different pointsof the S3stem where it will be most suitable to transformit down. In this waj not only are heav} feeders unnec-essary but the overhead work can be lijjfhter. It follows from what we have said that it is possible toemploy a water power (which may be at a considerabledistance) to run a street railway. It is true that this canalso be done with continuous currents, if. for instance,we take a high tension continuous current or alternatingcurrent to the central point of the railwaj system, andthere set up a converter station. This has
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