. Electric railway journal . enton hand-elevated two-stage steel tower, was putin service on the Quincy division, in which there are80 miles of wire. This vehicle has been in continuousoperation, with scarcely more than a day per month outof service. Its mileage capacity fully meets the require-ments, and the operating costs are economical. The batteries of the vehicle, consisting of sixty EdisonA-8 cells, are charged from the exciter busbars, at theQuincy power station of the company. If occasionarises, a boosting charge can be given at any time,while the men are engaged in line repairs, byma
. Electric railway journal . enton hand-elevated two-stage steel tower, was putin service on the Quincy division, in which there are80 miles of wire. This vehicle has been in continuousoperation, with scarcely more than a day per month outof service. Its mileage capacity fully meets the require-ments, and the operating costs are economical. The batteries of the vehicle, consisting of sixty EdisonA-8 cells, are charged from the exciter busbars, at theQuincy power station of the company. If occasionarises, a boosting charge can be given at any time,while the men are engaged in line repairs, bymaking an electrical connection by means of a trolleyhook and grounding to the rail, the 550-volt railwaypower being stepped down to 110 volts through gridslocated directly beneath the battery box. The currentis controlled by circuit breakers. Data on mileage, kilowatt consumption and operatingcosts of a vehicle of the electric battery type used inemergency work, were published in the Electric Rail-way Journal of May 23, ELECTRIC TOWER WAGON WITH PLATFORM LOWERED, AND TOWER WITH PLATFORM RAISED
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