. Electric railway review . ribed how the same result wasobtained by inserting a coreless reactance in the generatorcircuit between the generator and transformer. Though thereactance coil does not entirely prevent the surge, it reducesit by about 90 per cent. After three or four cycles, the core-less reactance coil is shunted and cut out of the circuit. C. C. Chesney, chief engineer Stanley Electric & Manufac-turing Company, read a paper on Forced Oil and Water Cir-culation for Cooling Oil Insulated Transformers. The paperwas freely discussed by a number of members, after whichP. O. Blackwells
. Electric railway review . ribed how the same result wasobtained by inserting a coreless reactance in the generatorcircuit between the generator and transformer. Though thereactance coil does not entirely prevent the surge, it reducesit by about 90 per cent. After three or four cycles, the core-less reactance coil is shunted and cut out of the circuit. C. C. Chesney, chief engineer Stanley Electric & Manufac-turing Company, read a paper on Forced Oil and Water Cir-culation for Cooling Oil Insulated Transformers. The paperwas freely discussed by a number of members, after whichP. O. Blackwells paper, Open Versus Inclosed High-VoltageStation Wiring, was read. The entertainment features of the meeting included avisit to the Fisk street station of the Commonwealth ElectricCompany in Chicago and an excursion to the Grand Rapids-Holland substations across Lake Michigan from Chicago. A PORTABLE SPRING SEAT. The Los Angeles Railway Company provides its motor-men with seats built after the design shown in the aecom-. Los Angeles Railway—Portable Spring Seat for Motormen. panying drawing. One seat is provided for each car and ismoved from the front to the rear platform when the trolleyis turned. The stool socket, 6 inches in diameter, is counter-sunk in the platform floor, and by means of the collar andset screw the height of the standard seat can be varied bymoving an adjustable collar up and down the pipe. A bronzespring, as shown, provides elasticity to the upper part of thestool. To prevent motormen from habitually riding with theirshoes on the varnished dashboard special foot rests are fas-tened at a convenient height, one on either side of the cen erof the dash. 71S ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII, No. 22. THE RAILWAY TRACK OF THE PAST AND ITS POSSI-BLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE.* BY .1. \V. Xo concerted effort has been made to analyze the railproblem, other than to blame the rail manufacturer for thepoor quality of the rails, but there is another side to
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