. The street railway review . 0th to the Oklahoma 1Co. for the : building a line from Guthrie to Oklahoma City and to El Reno. The line will be 75 miles long. Nov. 20. iocj. ] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 851 A MOVABLE SUB-STATION. infrequently stion has been raised as to the most eco- i supplying sufficient current to outlying parts ofsystems which at times carrj heavy traffic. Lines to distant pleasureparks used only, or chiefly, in summer, come particularly under thisheading. The delivery of a heavj current over several miles ,,f line involves a waste I g be continued for There are no trap doors,
. The street railway review . 0th to the Oklahoma 1Co. for the : building a line from Guthrie to Oklahoma City and to El Reno. The line will be 75 miles long. Nov. 20. iocj. ] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 851 A MOVABLE SUB-STATION. infrequently stion has been raised as to the most eco- i supplying sufficient current to outlying parts ofsystems which at times carrj heavy traffic. Lines to distant pleasureparks used only, or chiefly, in summer, come particularly under thisheading. The delivery of a heavj current over several miles ,,f line involves a waste I g be continued for There are no trap doors, .1- the trucks are not equipped with r is entirelj clear for the machinery. A in, sliding dooi is on on( side and 30-in. sliding doors at the tgonal corners. The length over sheathing is 36 ft., and width ists 9 ft. 0 in. Weight of rotary converter, 29,600 lb.; three transformers, lb.; switchboard, [,200 lb ; a total of 50750 11). The trucks are Brill X iS The car can be used, with and without machinery, for a variety. : SUB-STATION i/AK 1 I1Y .1. c;. CO. any length of time, and therefore sub-stations with rotary convert-ers arc built, although their maintenance during half the year 1- adead loss. During the past summer a very practical expedient has had asuccessful trial by the Wilkes-Barre it Hazleton Railway Co., con-sisting of a car built by the J. G. Brill of Philadelphia, ar-ranged to contain a 400-kw. rotary converter, three transformers anda switchboard. The car is. therefore, a movable sub-station readyto be placed on sidings wherever needed and connected with wirebearing an alternating current. As the percentage of waste for dis-tance is slight with alternating current, the car may be placed asfar from the power house a- need The current operates theconverter and is delivered in the proper quantity on the main linethrough the transformers or boo- The roof of the car 1- constructed to be entirely removable inone piece like a b
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