. Railway age . are provided with taps to give 600, , 340, 280 and 113 volts. The 600-volt tapsare used only on the auxiliary circuits. Allthe high tension apparatus is enclosed In anEach car is equipped with two pantagraph asbestos-lined cabinet. trolleys with steel pans, this material having been found to give greater satisfaction than either copper or aluminum. The car bodies were built by the St. Ix)uis Car Co. and closelyresemble the standard Pullman car. Each has separate accommoda^tions for white and colored people. The combination passenger andsmoking car has a seating capacity
. Railway age . are provided with taps to give 600, , 340, 280 and 113 volts. The 600-volt tapsare used only on the auxiliary circuits. Allthe high tension apparatus is enclosed In anEach car is equipped with two pantagraph asbestos-lined cabinet. trolleys with steel pans, this material having been found to give greater satisfaction than either copper or aluminum. The car bodies were built by the St. Ix)uis Car Co. and closelyresemble the standard Pullman car. Each has separate accommoda^tions for white and colored people. The combination passenger andsmoking car has a seating capacity of 64 persons, and the seatingcapacity of the combination passenger and baggage car, shown inthe accompanying photograph, is slightly less. The trucks are the inside suspension type and were built by theBaldwin Locomotive Co. The air-brakes have graduated is found in the straight air type, and can also be operated asan automatic system. The overhead construction Is the catenarj- suspended type. The. Reinforced Concrete Viaduct; Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway. 638 THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. . No 19. trolley wire; Is No. 0000 grooved copper, and the mcKHciiBer (-able lasteel and has Heven strandH. On the flrBt Bcctlou of the road, be-tween the Richmond depot and the car barns, the track is laid ona reinforced concrete viaduct shown herewith, the trolley being fliip-ported by steel spans. Bracket supports are used on the other sec-tions of the road. The .substation at the Ashland terminus, as already mentioned,provider for the lighting of the town. This Is probably the first timethat an attempt has been made to supply a IlKlitlng system froma high tension single-phase trolley subjected to .severe load fluctua-tions. TirrlU regulating apparatus Is U8e<l In both the sub-stationsand main station. The 6,()00-volt single-phase current is transformedto 440 volts by two oil-cooled transformers of 150 the low tension side, the current pas
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