. Electric railway journal . utator RotaryConverter employees by means of levers. At the Bonn city limit aninsulated section about 200 ft. long, corresponding to afour-car train, is inserted in the line to bridge the gapbetween the 1000-volt and 560-volt divisions. BON N-SIEGBURG-KONIGS WINTER ENERGY SUPPLY Energy is transmitted at 10,000 volts, three-phase, fiftycycles, from a central station at Bruhl to Ramersdorf, adistance of miles. The Ramersdorf converter stationis miles from Konigswinter. It contains two 350-kw, also been made for the installation of a booster to raise theline
. Electric railway journal . utator RotaryConverter employees by means of levers. At the Bonn city limit aninsulated section about 200 ft. long, corresponding to afour-car train, is inserted in the line to bridge the gapbetween the 1000-volt and 560-volt divisions. BON N-SIEGBURG-KONIGS WINTER ENERGY SUPPLY Energy is transmitted at 10,000 volts, three-phase, fiftycycles, from a central station at Bruhl to Ramersdorf, adistance of miles. The Ramersdorf converter stationis miles from Konigswinter. It contains two 350-kw, also been made for the installation of a booster to raise theline voltage. An interesting feature of the switchboard isthe use of a horn signal, in addition to the customary lamps,to announce the opening of a circuit breaker. IiONN-SIEGBURG-KONINGSWINTER ROLLING STOCK The rolling stock consists of twelve motor cars and twelvetrailers. These are about 46 ft. long over all and seatthirty-seven passengers each as compared with fifty-sevenpassengers on the Cologne-Bonn motor cars. The cars are. Rhine Interurban Railways—Ramersdorf Substation of the Bonn-Siegburg-Konigswinter Line 1000-volt rotary converters (one spare), transformers, account of the high voltage the rotary converters are ofthe double commutator type, each commutator being inde-pendently connected to the low-tension side of the trans- of the vestibuled type with no side doors. Each car isarranged for only one class of passengers but has the usualcompartment for smokers and partitioned cabs for themotorman. The seating arrangement is somewhat un- / November i, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 965 common for German cars in the use of longitudinal cornerseats. The widths of the seats are as follows: single crossseat, 20 in.; double cross seat, 42 in.; three-seat corner, 64in. The aisle between the cross seats is 20 in. wide. Thisseating arrangement has been found very effective for rapidloading and unloading. A feature which encourages pleas-ure riding is the use of windows fu
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