. The Street railway journal . es of Mr. Adams notes to which especialattention should be called is the apparatus for revealing short-circuits in newly wound armatures. This apparatus makes useof an alternating field, and locates short-circuited coils easilyand certainly. Mr. Adams method of reinsulating fields, thewire of which is too heavy to he handled by the reinsulatingmachine, has been adopted with profit in other places. Theother shop practices he describes are all well worth considering. STREET RAtLWAY JOURNAL. 4I2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10. THE WEST PENN RAILWAYS AND
. The Street railway journal . es of Mr. Adams notes to which especialattention should be called is the apparatus for revealing short-circuits in newly wound armatures. This apparatus makes useof an alternating field, and locates short-circuited coils easilyand certainly. Mr. Adams method of reinsulating fields, thewire of which is too heavy to he handled by the reinsulatingmachine, has been adopted with profit in other places. Theother shop practices he describes are all well worth considering. STREET RAtLWAY JOURNAL. 4I2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10. THE WEST PENN RAILWAYS AND LIGHTING SYSTEM In many sections of the country there are mining and otherindustrial communities scattered over districts of 50 miles to100 miles in extent, where the occupation and prevailingnationality of the inhabitants create a unification of interestboth from a social and business standpoint. Especially is thistrue of the mining and coke regions of Middle and WesternPennsylvania. Numerous small towns, varying from 1000 to. street MAP OF RAILWAY LINES OF WEST PENN SYSTEM. 10,000 inhabitants, constitute the nuclei of a larger distributedpopulation, and in few cases have the more important townsfailed to provide light and power, and, in some instances, rail-way plants for their exclusive service. The system of the West Penn Railway & Lighting Company,in its scope and purpose, is a noteworthy example of modernpractice in the rejuvenation of obsolete systems and the cen-tralization of power stations. The forerunner of the presentWest Penn system was the Pittsburg. McKeesport & Connells-ville Railway Company, the title under which the constituentrailway companies now exist. It was originally intended tooperate a line between the last two cities, and extend a line north to connect with that of the Pittsburg Railways. As theproject grew, however, new opportunities arose, branches andextensions were decided upon, and, finally, local lighting wastaken up in connection wi
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