. The Street railway journal . th municipalrestrictions, but have been in a position to adopt the most im-proved types of electric apparatus. The three principal systems of this kind of traction in Paris arethe Metropolitan Underground Road, the electrical terminal lineof the Paris and Orleans Railway, and the Paris-Versailles elec-tric line, which is operated by the Western Railway Company, ofFrance. It is not the purpose of this article to describe the 8o8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 20. Metropolitan system, which was fully covered in the StreetRailway Journal for Sept. 1, 1900, an
. The Street railway journal . th municipalrestrictions, but have been in a position to adopt the most im-proved types of electric apparatus. The three principal systems of this kind of traction in Paris arethe Metropolitan Underground Road, the electrical terminal lineof the Paris and Orleans Railway, and the Paris-Versailles elec-tric line, which is operated by the Western Railway Company, ofFrance. It is not the purpose of this article to describe the 8o8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 20. Metropolitan system, which was fully covered in the StreetRailway Journal for Sept. 1, 1900, and Sept. 6, 1902, nor togive a description of the Paris-Orleans line the engineering dataof which were published on Dec. 21, 1901, but to describe someparticulars of the latter system, derived from a recent inspectionof the line, and also to give some details of the electric service ofthe Paris and Versailles line, which was put into commercialoperation June 7, 1902. The Orleans Railway installation is somewhat similar in char-. FIG. 3—SECTION OF THIRD-RAIL CONSTRUCTION USED INSTATIONS acter to that proposed by the New York Central and Pennsyl-vania Railroads in securing an entrance into New York is, the through steam trains are stopped at the Austerlitzstation, which is near the outskirts of the city, and are then drawnby electric locomotives a distance of 2^ miles (4 km) to the QuaidOrsay station, not far from the Champs de Mars. The mainfeatures of the plant, which have already been described in thesepages, are briefly as follows: Power is obtained from a station3 miles (5 km) distant from the Quai dOrsay station, and istransmitted at 5500 volts and 25 periods to two sub-stations, whereit is transformed into 550 volts, direct current, by means of rotary shoes, of which there are four on each locomotive, are hung in theusual way by means of links, but, as shown in Fig. I, the lowerpart is made L-shaped so as to pass under the timber guard whichprotects the third ra
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