Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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largely to the raising of cotton. The line crosses the Chat- about 18 miles from .Atlanta and is transmitted at a potential of22,ooo volts. The power equipment at the water power station in-cludes Westinghousc three-phase 25-cyclc alternators with an ag-gregate capacity of 10,500 kw. In case of accident to the water powerstation, current may be obtained from a thoroughly equipped slcanipower plant which the Georgia Railway & Klectric Co., which alsoobtains power from the w-ater power plant ordinarily, has in reservefor the operation of its lines in the city of Atlanta in emergencies.Few railways in any part of the country are so well provided Williduplicate power apparatus for maintaining the operation of the roadat all tiines. The trolley line is divided into three sections, each fed from oneleg of the three phase transmission system through oil insulatedself-cooling transformers. There are two transformer stations ineach section connected to the same phase, making a total of six
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P.ASSENGER C.\K—ATLANTA NORTHERN R.\ILWAY CO. tahoochee River at Iceville and passes through the villages ofSmyrna, Gilniore and Butler. It is constructed over a private rightof way which runs parallel to the track of the Western & AtlanticR. R. The track construction is exceptionally good, consisting of 70-lb.T-rails laid on ties which are ballasted with slag shipped from theiron furnaces of the Birmingham district. The maximum grade is,? per cent and the shortest curve has a radius of 574 ft. The gageis 4 ft. 8H • Within the limits of Atlanta, girder rails are used. Except within the city limits of Atlanta, a single No. 000 trolleywire forms the entire low tension distributing system. This is fedwith 25-cycle single-phase alternating current at a potential of2,200 volts. The trolley wire is suspended from cross spans se-cured to wooden poles set 90 ft. apart on straight track and about45 ft. apart on curves. The construction is similar in general tothat ordinarily used in di

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