. The Street railway journal . FIG. 9—CAR FOR WINTER SERVICE mission line is composed of eighteen bare copper wires, , the current used being three-phase at 42 cycles, 15,000volts. FIG. 10—SAME CAR WITH UPPER DECK FOR SUMMER from any of the wires of the line. This same room is usedalso as a section point of the transmission line, and this ex-plains the number of section switches that can be seen on 8o4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 23. the walls. From this room six wires descend into a roombelow where the transformers are placed. They are threein number and reduce the tension fr
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 9—CAR FOR WINTER SERVICE mission line is composed of eighteen bare copper wires, , the current used being three-phase at 42 cycles, 15,000volts. FIG. 10—SAME CAR WITH UPPER DECK FOR SUMMER from any of the wires of the line. This same room is usedalso as a section point of the transmission line, and this ex-plains the number of section switches that can be seen on 8o4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 23. the walls. From this room six wires descend into a roombelow where the transformers are placed. They are threein number and reduce the tension from 15,000 volts to 330volts. The transformers are manufactured by Ganz &Company, of Buda-Pest, and are air cooled. Next to this room is the machine room, in which two200-kw rotary converters and two specially designed boost-ers driven by asinchronous motors are installed. The ro-tary converters were built by the General Electric Com-pany, in Schenectady, N. Y., and the only special featureabout them is that they work a
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