. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tank, means forheating the tar, a spraying device, anda locomotive for conveying the partsand shields for protecting the rails. December, igoO. ANU LOCOMOTIVM IlNGINEERING 567 Electric Traction on the N. Y. C. What is commonly called the Elec-tric Zone on the New York Central isat present the line from the Grand Cen-tral Station to Wakeheld on the Har-lem division, a distance of 13 miles, andfrom Matt Haven to Kingsbridge onthe main line, 4 miles, making a totalof 17 miles. The elec
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tank, means forheating the tar, a spraying device, anda locomotive for conveying the partsand shields for protecting the rails. December, igoO. ANU LOCOMOTIVM IlNGINEERING 567 Electric Traction on the N. Y. C. What is commonly called the Elec-tric Zone on the New York Central isat present the line from the Grand Cen-tral Station to Wakeheld on the Har-lem division, a distance of 13 miles, andfrom Matt Haven to Kingsbridge onthe main line, 4 miles, making a totalof 17 miles. The electric zone willeventually be extended on the main lineto South CrotoM and on tlie Harlem, lurieiil is withdrawn and the batterybrought in circuit. The battery in itscharged condition is a storehouse oipower just as coal on a locomotive ten-der is. There the carbon of the coal isready to re-combine with the oxygenof the air when the appropriate condi-tions are secured in the fire box. Thestorage battery, like the coal, possessesuhat is called the potential energy ofcluniical separation. The chemical. ;■». - ^i*& SUB-STATION. TRAIN. TRACK AND THIRD RAIL ON THE N. Y. C. (Courtesy of Street Railway Journal.) to North White Plains, and when thisis done there will be 52 miles underelectric traction. The track mileageincluding yard tracks now amounts to85 miles, but wdien the extension of theelectric system is completed there willbe 292 miles in all. The rails weigh 100lbs. per yard. The power house is at Port Mor-ris and at that point electricity is gen-erated as an alternating current, at II,-000 volts pressure. This current is car-ried to four sub-stations; No. i at theGrand Central Station, No. 2 is at MottHaven, No. 3 at Kingsbridge and ; at Bronx Park. These four consti-tute the present equipment. Nos. 4, 5,6 and 8 will be at Yonkers, Irvington,Ossining and,,ScarsdaIe, generally one may say thatthe current ,from the main powerhouse reaches the sub-
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