. The Street railway journal . h steam trains are stopped at the Aus-terlitz station, which is near the outskirts of the city, and arethen hauled by electric locomotives a distance of 2^4 miles was considered unsuited to the proposed service of the OrleansRailway, which consisted solely of hauling the main line andlocal trains from the old to the new terminus, the line runningmostly in a tunnel, where steam traction was the capabilities of the multiple-unit system forsuburban service early attracted the attention of the companysofficials, and soon after the Paris Expos
. The Street railway journal . h steam trains are stopped at the Aus-terlitz station, which is near the outskirts of the city, and arethen hauled by electric locomotives a distance of 2^4 miles was considered unsuited to the proposed service of the OrleansRailway, which consisted solely of hauling the main line andlocal trains from the old to the new terminus, the line runningmostly in a tunnel, where steam traction was the capabilities of the multiple-unit system forsuburban service early attracted the attention of the companysofficials, and soon after the Paris Exposition the company putin service an experimental train of two cars. The Paris-Orleans Company has a far more important rail-way system than can be judged from the number of trains arriv-ing at the terminus each day. It extends to the Spanish frontierand furnishes the most direct communication to Toulouse andBordeaux in the south, and reaches to the important commer-cial city of Brest in the west of France. Its suburban traffic,. INTERIOR OF ORSAY RAILROAD STATION, THE TERMINUS OF THE ELECTRIC SERVICE—THE ELECTRIC ELEVATOR FOR HOIST-ING TRUNKS AND OTHER BAGGAGE IS SHOWN AT THE REAR OF THE MIDDLE PLATFORM (4 km) to the Quai dOrsay station, not far from the Champsde Mars. The electrical equipment was put in operation aboutMay, 1900, and since that time from 150 to 200 trains have beenhauled daily by electric locomotives between the Austerlitzstation and the main station at the Quai dOrsay. The original power station contained two groups of 1000-kwunits, generating at 5500 volts, three-phase 25 cycles. Twosub-stations, each of 500 kw capacity, furnished with a batteryof 1100 ampere-hours capacity at one-hour discharge rate,boosters and transformers (5500-volt to 440-volt) of the air-blast type completed the stationary traction machinery. Poly-phase distribution was adopted because, although the line wasonly 2^/2 miles in length, the company anticipated the exten-sions to the syste
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