. The Street railway journal . lingrail A back to allow the flanges to pass. The success ofthe frog depends, of course, on the steam-car wheel flangesbeing deeper than the electric. Otherwise the steamflanges would catch in the flangeway of the electric. A bill to prevent passengers standing in open cars is be-ing agitated in New York. i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XVIIL No. i. The Storage Battery in Railway Power Station Service BY LAMAR LYNDON The application of storage batteries to generating anddistributing systems which are subject to varying or fluc-tuating loads—and only under such co
. The Street railway journal . lingrail A back to allow the flanges to pass. The success ofthe frog depends, of course, on the steam-car wheel flangesbeing deeper than the electric. Otherwise the steamflanges would catch in the flangeway of the electric. A bill to prevent passengers standing in open cars is be-ing agitated in New York. i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XVIIL No. i. The Storage Battery in Railway Power Station Service BY LAMAR LYNDON The application of storage batteries to generating anddistributing systems which are subject to varying or fluc-tuating loads—and only under such conditions is their useadvisable—may be (i) as a reserve for power storage, thefunction of the battery being to absorb energy duringperiods of light load and discharge on the peaks, thusequalizing the load on the station and bringing up theefficiency of the generating apparatus; (2) as a regulatoron the station load to absorb, or compensate for, rapidlluctuations of current demand and maintain a constant 13,000 11,000 10,000. FIG. I.—LOAD DIAGRAM FROM TYPICAL LARGE STATION voltage; (3) as a regulator on a long feeder-supplying re-ceiving apparatus, which draws varying amounts of cur-rent from the system, and to compensate for the changesof voltage due to changes of drop, maintaining at all timesa uniform voltage at the terminals of the receiver, or (4)a combination of any or all the three functions named. It is the purpose of this article to discuss these variousapplications with a view to af¥ording definite data for de-termining the sizes of battery and booster necessary tocover requirements under given conditions. POWER STORAGE On large railway systems the momentary fluctuationsdue to grades or starting, while small, as compared withstation output, are quite appreciable, and effect both thestation and strains on the operating systems will also have peaks that rise far above thenormal or average load, and when these are of short dura-tion, a batte
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