. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r Cylinders iS7 Feed Water Heaters 157 Self-Thimping .\sh Pans 158 T»En$iiietniiS Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1909 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances VoL XXII. 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1909 No. 5 Electricity on the N. Y., N. H. & H. During the early part of 1905, the en- Haven road doubly difficult because the The New York, New Haven & Hartford gineers of the New Haven, began the electrical equipment that they adopted for Railroad, which connects N
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r Cylinders iS7 Feed Water Heaters 157 Self-Thimping .\sh Pans 158 T»En$iiietniiS Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1909 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances VoL XXII. 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1909 No. 5 Electricity on the N. Y., N. H. & H. During the early part of 1905, the en- Haven road doubly difficult because the The New York, New Haven & Hartford gineers of the New Haven, began the electrical equipment that they adopted for Railroad, which connects New York with formation of plans for the electrification their road would also have to be operated many of the towns and cities of the of a portion of the road nearest New over the Centrals tracks from Woodlawn New England States, does not possess a York City with a view of extending it to the Grand Central, terminal in New York City, but shares later over the entire road. Prior to this, In consideration of this condition and. XLLW \i . l,.\ .\ |i I:, with the New York Central Railroad thelattcrs terminal at Forty-second street andMadison avenue, known as the GrandCentral Station. The New Haven roadalso uses the Centrals tracks as far asWoodlawn, N. Y., where its own tracksbegin. however, the New York Central had in-stalled a 600-volt direct current electricservice on its lines to a point some dis-tance beyond Woodlawn, and was alreadyoperating its local and express trains byelectricity. This fact made the problemthat confronted the engineers of the New ,,.; , ,>U I.(JL11.\1I)TI\ in view of the future operation of theentire road by electricity, the the single phase alternating cur-rent system as being the one best suitedto their purpose. Briefly, the electricsystem adopted consists of supplying atrolley wire direct from the generators i88 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING May, 1909. with single phase al
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