Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (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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ay if necessary. Third,there will be the steam service. To provide for passing thefast-moving units around the slower trains, a third trackhas been laid between Clarks Mills and Vernon, a distanceof 8y2 miles. This middle track has crossover connectionswith both outside tracks and will be used jointly by both head or third-rail distribution. The decision between directand alternating current had to be made two years ago, andwhile the initial cost was an important consideration, it didnot necessarily control the situation. It is interesting tonote, however, that the combined cost of overhead bridgesand motor equipment with the single-phase system justabout balanced the cost of rotary-converter sub-station andmotor equipment with 600-volt direct current. This wasas far as the estimates were carried, so far as these twosystems were concerned. Under these circumstances, thefact that the single-phase system at that time (June, 1905)was comparatively new and untried, and that the electrifi-
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TYPICAL THIKU-RAIL CONSTRUCTION ON THREE-TRACK SECTIONS AT CUR\I east-bound and west-bound traffic, to expedite the move-ment of all trains. It will be under the control of switch-men located in interlocking switch towers to insure safetyand dispatch in the handling of train movements underall conditions. In addition, between Oneida and Canastota,a distance of about 5^ miles, a fourth track has been laid,as there are water stations and freight yards in this sec-tion and it is necessary to provide four tracks to pass theelectric units around the freight trains that may be heldup in the yards or at watering stations. The outside trackswill be used for the local trains. SELECTION OF THE ELECTRIC SYSTEMWith a 600-volt trolley system at each end of the line,it became a serious question to the management of theOneida Railway Company whether to adopt for the inter-urban sections the single-phase system with bridge or polecatenary overhead construction or direct current with over- cation was

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