category: electric railroads

Proceedings of the American Electric Railway Association

... Headway during rush hours Maximum If so , how many ? Effect of signals on traffic schedule Before signaling After ... 5 . ate 10 minute headway . 5 .. difference . Hourly headway . Could oper- 60 116 31 118 No. 15 15 122 124 127 640 326 ...

Applicability of Low-floor Light Rail Vehicles in North America

... 5 - min headway as long as no wheelchairs need to be lifted onto any of the trains . The authority's Opera- tions Department has determined that the peak fleet ( for the option using LRVs with steps ) would have to be increased by two ...

Railway Electrical Engineer

... boss or integral bushing . No pipe thread should be exposed outside of ... G. T. Johnson , as- sistant electrical engineer , New York , New Haven ... Manual . L. S. Billau Chairman Standardization of the form of the committee reports . 3 ...

The Street Railway Journal

... del cilindro son de 506 mm . y de 911 mm . por 1214 mm . Nueva máquina de ... acero natural abierto , comprimido cuando en estado de fluidéz y forjado ... peso . Una nueva puerta con vestíbulo [ Pág . 577. ] Esta es una puerta corrediza ...

Proceedings of the Federal Electric Railways Commission: Held in Washington, D.C., During the Months of July, August, September, and October, 1919

... WARREN . Do you think the commissions should in any way control the expenditure of the money if they gave this emergency relief ? Mr. CARR . That is all provided for in the system of accounting ... case , has a right to call for reports ...

The Street Railway Journal

... voltage or pressure in a ... dan- ger beside that noted above , is the possibility of a person making ... amperemeter or ammeter , and is constructed with a very low resistance . In practice it is placed directly in the circuit . The voltmeter ...

Laboratory and Field Testing of NYCTA Power Frequency Track Circuits

Michael D. West. 6. CONCLUSIONS The track circuit types selected for testing were representative of the major extent ... AC propulsion equipment manufacturers to include data on these track circuits when developing design criteria for ...

The Street Railway Journal

... simple in both construction , operation and main- tenance . 3. It must be ... made is proof against determined intelligent violence . 5. It must be absolutely incapable of giving wrong signals ... systems with their trackage , routes and ...

Street and Electric Railways

... 290 , 318 , 342 , 364 . Taxes , of operating and lessor companies , 64-66 . Tazewell Street Railway Company , 272 , 300 , 326 , 350 , 372 . Telephone lines , uses of , 212 ; miles of ex- clusive , 305-327 ; instructions to special ...

Street and Electric Railways, 1902: Special Reports

... 290 , 318 , 342 , 364 . Taxes , of operating and lessor companies , 64-66 . Tazewell Street Railway Company , 272 , 300 , 326 , 350 , 372 . Telephone lines , uses of , 212 ; miles of ex- clusive , 305-327 ; instructions to special ...

Census of Electrical Industries, 1902-: Street Railways and Trolleybus and Motorbus Operations ...

... 290 , 318 , 342 , 364 . Taxes , of operating and lessor companies , 64-66 . Tazewell Street Railway Company , 272 , 300 , 326 , 350 , 372 . Telephone lines , uses of , 212 ; miles of ex- clusive , 305–327 ; instructions to special ...

Conference on Performance of Electrified Railways: a Survey of Main Line and Rapid Transit Systems in Many Countries, 14th-18th October 1968

VENTILATION OF OSAKA SUBWAY By Yoshio Akamatsu and Masahiro Maruo Summary Osaka Subway had kept cool air when it was newly built 35 years ago . But as years have gone by , the air in the old section of the subway has become much warm ...

Instruction for Substation Operation: Rocky Mountain, Missoula, and Coast Divisions

... should now be made to read 120 amps . by further adjustment of RH - 1 . On the 1500 K. W. set the reactance meter ( RVA ) should read about 200 k . v . a . to the right and the motor field current ... switch ( 5 ) is in the out po- sition .

The Street Railway Journal

... Auld Lang Syne . Summary of the Convention . The proceedings of the eleventh annual convention of the American Street Railway Association have passed into history and will mark it in some respects as the most remarkable , profitable and ...

AERA.

... business . Its treasury was depleted ; it was on the verge of bankruptcy ; its physical property had greatly ... company's brief , submitted in compe- tition for this year's Charles A. Coffin Award , the essential paragraphs of which are ...

Tramway and Railway World

... FOG For heavy commercial vehicles , Marchal Distributors Ltd. , of Great ... install . Instructions are included in each kit , and it can be fitted in ... integra part of the larger and more complex device , the Auto Lock , marketed by ...

The Street Railway Journal

... excel- lent trade in water tube boilers and spiral riveted pipe . Mr. Lewis ... calculator , provided with a leather case to fit the vest pocket , and is most convenient and neatly made . It enables the user to determine the proper size ...

Tramway and Railway World

... H. G. R. Stevenson . November 12. - Newcastle , LS " The Progress of ... VALUE OF ENGINEERING IN TRANSPORT Sir A. Gibb's Address at Institute of ... accepted tenders for special tramway trackwork , points and crossings from Titan ...

Railway Electrical Engineer

... form of Megger instrument is by far the most reliable device for the purpose ... test valuable also To 110 or 220 V. Fig . 1. Connections for Testing Motor ... result quite seriously , so that the readings cannot even be taken as ...

Report on Testing and Evaluation of the Transit Expressway: Mass Transportation Demonstration Project Conducted Under Contract 602, June 21, 1963, Between Port Authority of Allegheny County and United States of America, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

... full scale test facility was located in South Park , Allegheny County ... 22 inch wide ribbons of concrete . A steel " I " beam called the " guide ... automatic and do not require a motorman , conductor , or attendant on board . The ...

The Street Railway Review

... 1903. ] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW . house . Diagram No. 2 shows the wiring of the Buffalo terminal house . Occur . Again ... SPRINGFIELD & XENIA TRACTION CO . No. 7.

The Street Railway Journal

... fuerza motriz por el vapor , por H. A. Foster . [ Pág . 474. ] Discusión del costo de la producción eléctrica para ... Diagrama para computar el costo anual de carbón por caballo de fuerza [ Pág . 498. ] Un diagram muy útil basado en ...

The Trolley Museum Dispatch

... wiring are back in place . ffort is now being directed to completing the ... diagram . ( Woolnough Photo ) Montreal 957 , whose restoration is sponsored ... bull gears on the axles . New pinions will have to be acquired before this car ...

Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association

... VOTE OF THANKS TENDERED . Mr. Bean I move that a vote of thanks be given to the gentleman for his liberal offer and that the offer be rejected upon the sole line that the Committee tabled the resolution . The Chairman : I will express ...

Electric Railway Journal

PAVEMENT SAND CUSHION BECOMING OBSOLETE Comparatively recent experimental pavements in which brick or granite block was laid on a mortar cushion , instead of the usual sand cushion , demon- strate the utility of the former which , it is ...

The Street Railway Journal

... the making of new contracts with the com- panies now providing through ... Expert . - Ralph S. Pierce , as- sistant corporation counsel of Seattle ... engineer to testify , as the valuation fixed at the hearing will be the basis of any ...

Transit Journal

... [ Danielson ] 474 Polyphase Railways , European [ De Muralt ] , 478 , 481 ... Sheets of [ Gotshall ] ............... . Portsmouth : Electric Railway System of ... ( Cheat- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad .. 296 ham ) * 380 of Fly - wheels for Slow ...

Electric Traction on Railways

Sir Philip Dawson. FIG . SUBJECT . 239 PAGE Wiring Diagram for a Motor Coach ... Siemens - Schuckert Single - phase Multiple - unit Control .... 245 View ... Diagrams showing Heights of Centre of Gravity for Various Types of Rolling Stock ...

The Street Railway Journal

... Hollow Ware Co. , Pittsburgh , Pa . Kling , P. M. , St. Louis Car Co. , St ... Police Alarm Telegraph , Milwaukee , Wis . Kenfield , H. J. , Street Railway ... Supply Company , Chicago , Ill . Myers , Louis E. , Electrical Installation Co ...

Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting ...

... mouse trap which will cause the world to beat a pathway to your door . But ... car scrapped the omnibus and steam tram . The cable car scrapped the horse ... reports of the death of the street car have proven grossly exaggerated , even in ...

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