Electric railway journal (1915) (14759311664)

Identifier: electricrailway451915newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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am locomotives are still used for this service. Energy Distribution Power to operate the road is purchased, at a cost ofIV2 cents per kilowatt-hour, from the Jamestown StreetRailway, which is also controlled by A. M. Broadhead,president of the Jamestown, Westfield & NorthwesternRailroad. The Jamestown Street Railway has a largepower plant at Jamestown, and its subsidiary, the Chau-tauqua Traction Company, maintains substations atStow and at Mayfield. By tying in the feeders andtrolleys at Jamestown, Stow and Mayville, it has beenpossible to obtain fairly good power distribution forthe interurban road without necessitating the use ofadditional generating apparatus. By reference to the map, it will be seen that the townof Stow, where one of the substations is located, is onthe opposite side of the lake from the tracks of theJamestown, Westfield & Northwestern Railroad. LakeChautauqua is very narrow at this point, and the energyis transmitted across by two ungrounded lead-covered
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JAMESTOWN ELECTRIFICATION—MOTOR CAR ON JAMESTOWN, WESTFIELD & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, QUARTER VIEW JUNE 12, 1915) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1111