. Electric railway review . Hanover & York Railway—Interurban Lines of York Railways. the pressure is lowered to 2,300 volts. At this voltage cur-rent is delivered to the station of the York Railways Company,. Hanover & York Railway—Overhead Crossing with Highway and Stream. At each important highway crossing the company haserected a shelter shed of the attractive design illustrated here-with. Power Distribution. Current for the operation of the line is purchased from theYork Haven Water Power Company, which has a hydraulicplant on the Susquehanna river, 12 miles north of York. Thepower is gen
. Electric railway review . Hanover & York Railway—Interurban Lines of York Railways. the pressure is lowered to 2,300 volts. At this voltage cur-rent is delivered to the station of the York Railways Company,. Hanover & York Railway—Overhead Crossing with Highway and Stream. At each important highway crossing the company haserected a shelter shed of the attractive design illustrated here-with. Power Distribution. Current for the operation of the line is purchased from theYork Haven Water Power Company, which has a hydraulicplant on the Susquehanna river, 12 miles north of York. Thepower is generated at 2,300 volts, which in the generating where it is fed to two 450-kilowatt Westinghouse motor-gen-erator sets. Each of these units comprises a 2,300-voIt three-phase 60-cycle synchronous motor, driving a single-phase 6,600-volt 25-cycle generator. Exciting current is furnished by a3-machine set, comprising an induction motor driving two 125-volt direct-current Westinghouse generators. The regulationof the motor-generator sets is effected with a Tirrell regulator,which controls the field current of the exciting generators. March 1908 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 289 Prom the Une switch al the p
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