The Washington, Baltimore and Indiana single-phase road is the latest in the field, contracts having been placed very recently. The current will be transmitted at 33,000 volts and 25 cycles, then being stepped down to 6,600 volts on the trolley. The road will be 60 miles long and will be equipped with General Electric apparatus. Four 125-H. P. motors capable of operating on either alternating current or direct current will be used, and the cars will be capable of a speed of 60 miles per hour.
INDEX
- Air brakes, [56]
- Air compressors, [57]
- automatic governor for, [57]
- Westinghouse, [58]
- Alternating-current generators, [105]
- Alternating-current switchboards, [110]
- Alternating-current systems, [113]
- single-phase motors, [114]
- three-phase motors, [113]
- Alternating-current transmission, [99]
- Armature coils, [8]
- Armature leads, [9]
- Armature tests for grounds, [133]
- Armature winding, [5]
- defects of, [124]
- mistakes in, [126]
- Automatic governor for air compressors, [57]
- Ballast, [85]
- Bearings of railway motors, [13]
- Block signals for electric railways, [94]
- Bond testing, [120]
- Bonding and return circuits, [88]
- Booster feeder, [98]
- Brackets, [75]
- Brake leverages and shoe pressure, [54]
- Brake rigging, [53]
- Brake shoes, [64]
- Brush holders, [10]
- Brushes, [10]
- Burn-outs, [123]
- Canopy switch, [39]
- Car, failure of to start, [127]
- Car bodies, [67]
- Car circuit breaker, [39]
- Car construction, [67]
- Car equipment, [3]
- Car heaters, [34]
- electric, [34]
- hot-water, [36]
- Car painting, [72]
- Car repair shops, [134]
- Car weights, [72]
- Car wheels, [51]
- Car wiring, [37]
- Cast-welded joints, [87]
- Coefficient of friction, [65]
- Common T-rail, [84]
- Commutator type single-phase motor, [139]
- Compressors, [57]
- Conductivity of steel rail, [80]
- Conduit systems, [81]
- contact plow, [82]
- cost of, [82]
- current leakage, [83]
- Contact plow, [82]
- Contact shoes, [45]
- Controller construction, [19]
- Controller notches, [27]
- Controller wiring, [20]
- Controllers, [16]
- Cost of power, [119]
- Couplers, [66]
- Current required to heat cars, [35]
- Current leakage, [83]
- Defects of armature windings, [124]
- Direct-current feeding, [98]
- Double-current generators, [105]
- Drawbars, [66]
- Economy in power, [118]
- Electric car accessories, [39]
- canopy switch, [39]
- car circuit breaker, [39]
- contact shoes, [45]
- fuses, [41]
- lamp circuits, [43]
- lightning arresters, [41]
- trolley base, [44]
- trolley poles, [44]
- trolley harp, [45]
- trolley wheels, [44]
- Electric cars, road tests of, [117]
- Electric heaters for cars, [34]
- Electric railway, [1]
- Electrically welded joints, [87]
- Electrolysis, [95]
- prevention of, [97]
- Feeder panel, [110]
- Feeder systems, [92]
- Feeders, [75]
- Field coils, [8]
- Field tests for grounds, [133]
- Four motors, [19]
- Fuse blows, [130]
- Fuses, [41]
- Gearing, [12]
- G. E. electric brake, [61]
- G. E. train control, [29]
- Generator, starting up, [108]
- Generator D. C. panels, [106]
- Generators, [105]
- Girder rail, [83]
- Grounds, [123]
- High-tension lines, [77]
- High-tension oil switches, [111]
- Highway crossings, [80]
- Hot-water heaters for cars, [36]
- Insulators, third rail, [79]
- Interurban railway, system of distribution for, [101]
- Joints for rails, [86]
- Lamp circuits, [43]
- Lightning arresters, [41]
- Locating defects in motor and controller wiring, [128]
- Location of
- power houses, [101]
- third rail, [79]
- Lubrication of railway motors, [13]
- Magnetic blow-out, [26]
- Maximum traction trucks, [51]
- Momentum brakes, [59]
- Motor leads, [9]
- Motor suspension, [14]
- Motor-coil testing, [121]
- Motors, [3]
- as emergency brakes, [63]
- of the New York Central electric locomotive, [15]
- Multiple-unit control, [29]
- Oil switches, high tension, [111]
- Open-circuit tests, [128]
- Opening cases for inspection, [10]
- Overhead construction, [73]
- brackets, [75]
- feeders, [75]
- high-tension lines, [77]
- section insulators, [76]
- span wires, [74]
- trolley wire, [73]
- trolley-wire clamps and ears, [73]
- Potter third-rail shoe, [46]
- Power
- cost of, [119]
- economy in, [118]
- taken by cars, [115]
- Power house location, [101]
- Power stations, general plan of, [105]
- Power supply and distribution, [98]
- Railway motors
- bearings, [13]
- brushes, [10]
- characteristics of, [3]
- gearing of, [12]
- lubrication of, [13]
- Rate of retardation in braking, [66]
- Resistance of track, [91]
- Resistances, [38]
- Return feeders, [92]
- Reversal of motor, [26]
- Reversed fields, [133]
- Rheostat control, [17]
- Road tests of electric cars, [117]
- Sectional insulators, [76]
- Series-parallel control, [17]
- Shanghai T-rail, [84]
- Short-circuit tests, [130]
- Single trucks, [48]
- Single-phase electric railway, [136]
- Single-phase motors, [114], [139]
- Sleet on trolleys and third rails, [46]
- Sliding and spinning wheels, [119]
- Span wires, [74]
- Sparking at the commutator, [127]
- Sprague multiple-unit system of control, [29]
- Steel car framing, [71]
- Storage air brakes, [58]
- Storage batteries in stations, [113]
- Street railway motors, general data on, [6]
- Supplementary return feeders, [92]
- Swing bolster trucks, [49]
- Switchboards, [106]
- alternating-current, [110]
- Switches, third rail, [79]
- Swivel trucks, [48]
- T-rail, [84]
- Thermit welding, [88]
- Third rail, [79]
- advantages in operation, [80]
- Third rail
- conductivity of, [80]
- cost of, [80]
- highway crossings, [80]
- insulators for, [79]
- location, [79]
- switches, [79]
- Three-phase motors, [113]
- Track brakes, [63]
- Track construction, [83]
- Track resistance, [91]
- Track sanders, [65]
- Track support, [85]
- Transmission systems, efficiency of, [101]
- Trilby groove rail, [84]
- Trolley base, [44]
- Trolley harp, [45]
- Trolley poles, [44]
- Trolley wheels, [44]
- Trolley wire, [73]
- Trolley-wire clamps and cars, [73]
- Trucks, [46]
- maximum traction, [51]
- single, [48]
- swing bolster, [49]
- swivel, [48]
- Type L controllers, wiring of, [24]
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