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534 statistics on earnings of steam railroads. 4S switching yards, 35 terminal electrification. 34, 88. 97 Rails, broken by steam locomotives, 65. Rails, impedance data, 438, 461 Railways, definition of, vii early electric, 1884, 1888, 7 elevated railways, 25 interurbans of each state, 15, 18 operating motor-car trains, 258, 263 practical electric, 188, 8 suburban, 10 table of deveolpment, 13 third-rail, 26 Rating of motors, 182, 187 Rating of electric locomotive motors, compared. 186 Rating of railway motors with forced draft. 185 Reasons for electrification, 498, 499 Reciprocating motion versus circumferential, 65, 81, 91, 104 Rectifier plans, 133, 145 Regeneration of energy, 92, 424, 426 ^•ith direct^current motors. 425 with single-phase motors, 426 with three-phase motors, 425 Relation between steam pressure and speed. 73 Relative advantages of electric systems, 147 Relative equipment of power plants and railway motors, 468 Reliability of electric service, 94, 476, 483 "20 ^2«4 0 40854 BU ? INDEX. 581 Repairs and renewals of steam locomotiveH, 6S, 84 Repulsion rooters, 174- Resistance, of air, 407, 409 of copper wire, 438 of curves, 413, 414 of motors, 216 tractive, 407 Retardation rates, 417 Revenue of freight roads, 39, 96 Rheostats, water, 340, 343 Rigid wheel base, steam locomotives. 58 Rock Island Southern motor car trains, 23o Rosenthal, L.W., 439 Rombacher-Huette Ry. locomotives, 334 Rotterdam-Hague-Scheveningen Ry. electrifica- tion, 263. 5Q5 motor-car train. 260 Safety in electric traction, 91 St. Clair Tunnel. See Grand Trunk Railway. St. Georges de Commiers a la Mure, 335 St. Tx)uis and Belleville, 44 St. Paul. See Minneapolis. St. Polten-Mariazell locomotive, 396 Santa Fe Gergal Ry., 133, 565 Savona Ceva Railway, 343, 569 Schedule speed of trains, 405 Seebach Wettingen electrification, 355, 396, 567 Selection of motor capacity, 186 Series motors, 161 Series-parallel control, 215 Shawinigan Falls Terminal Ry. locomotives, 382 Shepard, F. H., multiple-unit control, 247 Shepardson^ Geo. D., railway motor tests, 49, 219 Short Electric Company, 9 Shunt motors, 11, 425 Side-bar suspension of motors, 205 Side rods on locomotives, 298; on Pitt^iburg cars, 301 Siemens & Halske, experimental locomotive of 1879, 3, 339 first commercial roads, 4 single-phase railways, 141, 142 three-phase railways, 134 Siemens-Schuckert locomotive, 339 Simplicity of electric traction, 91 Simplon Tunnel, catenary construction, 450 locomotives, electric, 346 Sinclair, Angus, 69 Single-phase motors, 169, 189 commutators, 178 control, 177, 218, 248, 253 list of motors, 187 series-compensated and repulsion, 169, 175 weight, 179, 193 Single-phase .systems, 136 motor-car trains, list of. 256 railway installations, 138, 143 Sixty cycle for motors on locomotives or motor cars, 144, 213, 214 Smith, W. iV., 625, 528 Smoke and gases from locomotive.H, 116, 277 Social advantages of electric traction, 114 Southern Pacific, cost of electrification, 519, 555 grades, 503 Mallet locomotives, and tests. 78, 81 Southern Ry. See French Southern. South Side Elevated R., Chicago, 25 Spain, railroad electrifications, 565 Speed of armatures, peripheral, 201 Speed of motors, 201 Speed of raUway trains, 201, 291, 405 Speed of trains increased with electric traction, 405 Speed-time curves, 421 2:^ peed- torque or operating characteristics: Bernese Alps Ry., 395 Boston & Maine eectric locomotives, 377 electric locomotives, 270, 273 Grand Trunk electric locomotives, 380 Michigan Central locomotives, 321 New Haven & Hartford locomotives, 366, 36 New Haven & Hartford motor-cars, 253 New York Central locomotives, 316 Pennsylvania locomotives, 328 Simplon Tunnel locomotives, 349 Southern Pacific (Mallet) locomotives, 78, 8 1 Southern Railway, France, 385 Spokane & Inland locomotives, 361 steam locomotives, 71, 75 Spokane & Inland Empire R. R., 359 Sprague, Frank J., at Richmond, electric lines in 1890, 8. 42 on control plan, 33, 245. 249 on electric systems, 153 motor-car train, 238 on locomotives nosing, 288 on New York Central locomotive, 288, 312 on regeneration of energy, 425 technical papers. See literature. Sprague-General Electric control, 246 Standardisation of-motors, A. I. E. E., 182 Statistics of steam and electric railways, 48 Steam, Gas, and Water Power Plants. Chapter XIII. 466 Steam turbines, 474 _ Steam turbine locomotives, 81 Steam and electric railway statistics, summary, 48 Steel towers for transmission lines, 444 Steinmetz, C. P., on contact lines, 448 on New Haven electrification, 180 on single-phase motors, 176, 180 StaiweU, L. B., 278, 283, 301, 430 on electric systems, 153 Storage batteries, 146 Storer, AT. W., 167. 301 Suburban roads, 10, 101 Subways and tunnels, 30, 32 Superheat, 69, 474 SusperiHioh of loetors, 20 4 Sweden and Norway, electrification, 563 Swedwh State Railway: electrification, 563 locomotives, 382 Savi.ss Federal Railway: electric system, 133 electrification, 567 582 INDKX. Swiss Federal Railway: locomotives, 346 power required for all trains, 430 Switchwork and yards, 35. 449 Switzerland, railroad electrification, 567 Syracuse, Lake Shore & Northern, 452 Systems of Electrification, Chapter IV, 126 advantages and disadvantaices, of each system, 147 choice of, 127, 154 classification, 127 combination, 144 direct-current, advantaf^es of, 148 development of, 128 table of 750 to 2000- volt roads, 129 Uble of 1200- to 1500- volt roads, 130 interchangeable, 146 mercury arc, 133 permutator plans, 145 power plant, 492 rectifier plan, 133, 145 single-phase, advantages of, 149 development, 136 equipment of roads, 138, 143 list of roads. 138, 139, 141. 143 status of railway work, 127 summary of roads, 144 three-phase, advantages of, 149 development of, 134 equipment of roads, 135 Italian State, 152 list of roads, 135 three- wire, 128 Technical Descriptions : contact lines, 449 direct-current locomotives. Chapter VHI, 303 motor-car trains, 224 power plants, 485 f proposed electrifications, 556 single-phase locomotives. Chapter X, 354 three-phase locomotives. Chapter IX. 328 Temperature and power, 64, 271,502 Terminals of railways, 25, 34, 97 capacity and traffic, 97 electrification, 497, 524 Third-rail, roads, lists, 26 Baltimore & Ohio, 26, 303, 550 capacity of shoes, 446 contact lines, 455 contact surface, 147 cost of, 458, 460 development of, 26 disadvantages of, 457 insulation, 456 maintenance cost, 460 New York, New Haven & Hartford, 27 overhead third rails, 456 return conductors, 458 table of roads, 28, 29 1200- volt, 130 voltages on, 456 Thomson, Eliliu, electric controller, 9 Thomson-Houston Klectric Co., 9 lliree-phase, alternating-current systems. 133 electric locomotives, list, 328 motor control, 214, 218 railroad equipment and mileage, 135, 621 Three-wire systems, 128 lliury Electric Railway, 335 Toledo & Western R. R., 36 Ton-mileage of electric railways, 535 Torque, of direct-current motors, 210 of single-phase motors, 179, 210 of three-phase motors. 168, 210, 270 See drawbar pull. Towers, cost of steel, 458 Track destruction, 65, 104, 206 Track mileage. See mileage. Tractive coefficient, 406 Tractive effort for railway trains, 469 Tractive resistance, 407, 408 Train capacity of elevated and underground roads, 26 Train-mile data on operating expenses of steam roads, 83. 107, 280 Train service and e<iuipment of electric roads, 532, 533, 534 Transmission and Contact Lines, Qiapt^r XII, 432 cost of, 458 design of apparatus, 435 development of high voltages, 436 energy losses, 433 on electric roads, 148, 478, 508 New York Central, 424 West Jersey & Seashore, 434 engineering, 439, 441 high voltages, 439, 441 high-voltage transmissions, 443 impedance and resistance, 438 laws governing, 437 losses, 119, 434 pantographs, 446 status of development. 433 steel tower, 444 Trolley wheels, 446. See contact line. Trucks. See descriptions of locomotives. Tunnel roads, 30, 31, 92 • Tunnel data, 31 1200- volt railways, 130 Twin aty Rapid Transit Co. : power plant, 489 repairs of motors, 237 rotary converter installation, 1897, 132 See Minneapolis-St. Paul. Unbalanced forces of locomotives. 64 See reciprocating motion. I'nderground Electric Railway, Ix>ndon: motor-car train, 258, 260 Underground roads using electric power, 31 Universal electric systems, 146 VaUUin. Beta, 342, 569 Yaltellina Line of Italian State Railway. 568 catenary construction, 450 co«t of electrification, 521 INDEX. 683 Valtellina, locomotives, 330 motor-car trains, 253 motors, 209 powerplant load factor, 468 system used, 133, 152 truck for motor cars, 254 See Giovi Railway Van Depode, 3, 4, 5, 200 Variety of service, 471 Ventilation of motors, 18.3 Verola, M., on systems, 152, 569 Visalia Electric, locomotives, 377 motors, 173 Voltage, control, 218 drop in circuits, 438 of high-voltage transmissions, 443 of transmission and contact lines, 437 Wages decreased with electric traction, 105 Walker spring suspension, 205 Walschaert valve gear, 73 Ward- Leonard locomotive and system, 396 Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis: direct-current system, 140 single-phase system, 139 Wat«r power plants, 481 Water supply, 473, 482 Water tube boilers, 474 Waterman, F. N., 472 Watt hours per car mile, 429 Watt hours i>er ton mile, 421 Weather ratings of locomotives, 64, 271 Weight, analysis of electric locomotives, 293 /actor of electric locomotives, 291, 292, 293 of cars, 403 of direct-current, railway motors, 190 Weight, of locomotives per foot of base, 56, 290 of motor-car train, distribution of, 231 of single-phase motors, 148, 179, 193 of steam locomotives, 57 of three-phase locomotive motors, 192 per driving axle, 57, 289 Western Railway of France, 664 Westinghouse Company, 9, 138, 141, 142 control for trains, 246 data on motors, 191, 194 single-phase motors, 193 single-phase railways, 138, 141, 142 Westinghouse, George, 286 Westinghouse Interworks locomotive, 356 West Jersey & Seashore R. R. : earnings and expenses, 112, 547 electric system, 547 electrification, 516, 546 motor cars, 256, 547 motor-car train, 232 motor-car truck, 232, 255 power plant, 488, 547 reasons for electrification, 546 transmission and contact line, 000 transmission losses, 434 West Shore R. R. electrification, 543 motor-car train, 233 Wheel base of locomotives, 58 Wheels, driver diameters, 297 WUgus, W. J., 88 Wilkes-Barre & Hazelton Railroad, 16, 28, 256 Winter-Eichberg motor, 175 Work Done in Railroad Electrification, Chapter XV, 530 Yoke suspension of motor*, 205 A*1Qia5122M5 B89090612246A I I a*)0A152Ab71 B89081528671A K.F.WENDTUBRARY UW COLLEGE OF ENGR. 215 N. RANDALL AVENUE MAWSON, Wl S3706 > 1. 