. American engineer . 12. formerly used on all Pennsylvania limited trains. In this casethe usual switching devices are replaced by two single-poleautomatic circuit breakers, giving both overload and underloadlirotection to the machine. The field rheostat and meters aremounted on the side of the car. Connections are such that tlieturbo-generator can be used for driving the motor, chargingthe batteries, and lighting the car, though, under ordinary condi-tions, the motor will be driven from the yard power axle generators are mounted on rocker shafts and areequipped with springs for reg
. American engineer . 12. formerly used on all Pennsylvania limited trains. In this casethe usual switching devices are replaced by two single-poleautomatic circuit breakers, giving both overload and underloadlirotection to the machine. The field rheostat and meters aremounted on the side of the car. Connections are such that tlieturbo-generator can be used for driving the motor, chargingthe batteries, and lighting the car, though, under ordinary condi-tions, the motor will be driven from the yard power axle generators are mounted on rocker shafts and areequipped with springs for regulating the belt tension as is donein actual service. Immediately back of each machine is anangle iron framework on which the corresponding regulatingapparatus is mounted, the equipment in each case Ijeing identicalwith that installed on passenger cars. Each generator is con-nected through suitalile switching devices to the lamp load andliatteries. enabling the operator to demonstrate the apparatus REPAIR TRACK NOTES. Turbine and Generator ,nt One End of the Car. under all conditions of load. The lamps used for this arebanked in porcelain receptacles on the ceiling of the car. Thedriving motor is of the interpole type, and is mounted on an ironframework equipped with rollers, which enable the operator tomove the motor equipment along an I beam track for belting upto any one of the six generators. The control panel for thismachine is secured to tlie movable framework and moves withthe motor. The operators office contains a folding couch, upper closet and toilet, the finish throughout being whiteenamel. With the instruction car in operation it is intendedthat all employees, in both the mechanical and operating de-partments whose duties have to do with the car lighting shallbe instructed in the care and operation of the various equip-ments, with the two-fold object of educating those interested andsecuring uniformity in their work. BY A REPAIRMAN In spite of all that
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