. The Street railway journal . NO. 6. Electricity for Street Railways. In an address at the Baltimore meetingof the National Electric Light Association,Mr. Charles J. Van Depoele, in a paper heread, gave the following interesting detailsof his experience in electrical street railwayexperiments: During the summer months of 1885, I an electromotive force of about 1,400 volts,and an intensity of current of about 18 am-peres. The engine and dynamo wereplaced in Machinery Hall, close to theboiler-room. The dynamo was connected: one polewith the rails, which were fastened to-gether by means of f
. The Street railway journal . NO. 6. Electricity for Street Railways. In an address at the Baltimore meetingof the National Electric Light Association,Mr. Charles J. Van Depoele, in a paper heread, gave the following interesting detailsof his experience in electrical street railwayexperiments: During the summer months of 1885, I an electromotive force of about 1,400 volts,and an intensity of current of about 18 am-peres. The engine and dynamo wereplaced in Machinery Hall, close to theboiler-room. The dynamo was connected: one polewith the rails, which were fastened to-gether by means of fish-plates, and theother pole to an overhead wire, hanging motor the current was carried to the axlesof the wheels, the wheels to the track, thusclosing the circuit upon the generator. We began placing poles, etc., on the 1stof September, and made our first trip onthe 5th of September. From beginning toend not the slightest hitch occurred, run-ning regularly from 8 a. m. tUl p. ii.,without stopping a minute. On many oc-. Am. Ry. Puli. FRANCISCO CABLE ROADS. VIEW ON THE CALIFORNIA STREET RAILWAY, UP CALIFORNIA STREET HILL. entered into a contract with the directorsof the Toronto (Ontario) annual exhibition,to run a train of three cars and a motor car,from the street railway terminus to theupper grounds of the exposition, a distanceof a mile. Having only a single track, Ihad to prepare here for a light train andgood speed. The plant consisted of thefollowing: One steam-engine, 10x16, run-ning 125 revolutions per minute, drivingan ordinary 40-light arc machine, having over the center of the track, by means ofarms extending from poles placed along thelength of the track. On top of the car onwhich the motor was placed, was a contactwheel, carried by a pivoted beam, thelatter being provided with a spring, on oneend, pressing the wheel at the other endup against the underside of the overheadwire; this contact wheel was in communica-tion, by means of a flexible cable, with
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