Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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( OCTOBER 13. 1906 J
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i I j 1 October 13, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 595 another part of the city and is used by some of the city cars, andby the interurbans, for such repairs as have to be made at thisterminal. The shop is well equipped with tools and labor-saving devices. The Columbus Railway & Light Company is using in its hurry-up repair service a gasoline automobile tower wagon, which hasgiven satisfactory results for strictly city service, and is said to held in reserve and is used only on peaks and in emergencies, a500-kw National motor-generator set having been installed atthis station for the purpose of taking current from the other sta-tions and delivering direct current to the system in this district. All of these stations are thoroughly tied together by a. c. andd. c. tie-lines, giving the greatest degree of flexibility and per-mitting of a number of combinations in the generation of current

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