. The Street railway journal . 0000000000 Cv<!DOc\l4-inOOO - - 01 Aniperef Load. FIG. 8.—CURVES OF 800 GENERATOR n be two Westinghouse boosters at the Ypsilanti station and oneat the Dearborn station. These will be connected in series withthe feeders running from the Ypsilanti station toward Ann Arborand from each station toward the middle of the section between. FIG. 6.—TWO OF THE FOUR 1500 GENERATORS IN POWER STATION OF UNION TRACTION COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA the main bus bars of the station. The Detroit, Ypsilanti & AnnArbor Railway Company, of Detroit, Mich., is now installin
. The Street railway journal . 0000000000 Cv<!DOc\l4-inOOO - - 01 Aniperef Load. FIG. 8.—CURVES OF 800 GENERATOR n be two Westinghouse boosters at the Ypsilanti station and oneat the Dearborn station. These will be connected in series withthe feeders running from the Ypsilanti station toward Ann Arborand from each station toward the middle of the section between. FIG. 6.—TWO OF THE FOUR 1500 GENERATORS IN POWER STATION OF UNION TRACTION COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA the main bus bars of the station. The Detroit, Ypsilanti & AnnArbor Railway Company, of Detroit, Mich., is now installing aline that affords an excellent illustration of the operation of thebooster system. The total length of the line is thirty-two andone-half miles, and there are two power stations, one at Dearbornand the other at Ypsilanti, the distance between them being the two stations. Each booster feeder will be about seven andone-half miles long. These boosters will be driven by a motor,the armature of which will be mounted upon the sameshaft as the booster armature. Fig. 9 shows one of thesebooster armatures completely wound. The one on the left isbooster armature wound for 300 volts. The common bed plate 552 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No. 9. supports the two fields which are divided vertically, as shownin the view of one of the completed units in Fig. 9. These
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