Table of Contents


Car Equipment
Page 3
Classification of Electric Railways—Motors—Armature Winding—Armature and Field Coils—Armature and Motor Leads—Brushes and Brush-Holders—Gearing—Lubrication—Bearings—Motor Suspension—Electric Locomotive Motors—Controllers—Rheostat and Series-Parallel Control—Controller Construction—Multiple-Unit Control (Sprague, General Electric, Westinghouse Electro-Pneumatic)—Car-Heaters—Car Wiring—Electric-Car Accessories (Canopy Switches; Circuit-Breakers; Fuses; Lightning Arresters; Lamp Circuits; Trolley-Base; Trolley-Poles, Wheels, and Harp; Contact Shoes; Sleet Wheels)—Single Trucks—Swivel Trucks—Maximum-Traction Trucks—Car Wheels—Brake Rigging—Air-Brakes (Compressor, Automatic Governor, Storage Tanks)—Momentum Brakes—G. E. Electric Brake—Westinghouse Electromagnetic Brake—Track Brakes—Motors as Emergency Brakes—Brake Shoes—Track Sanders—Drawbars and Couplers.
Car Construction
Page 67
Car Bodies—Steel Car Framing—Car Weights—Car Painting.
Line Construction
Page 73
Overhead Construction—Trolley-Wire—Clamps and Ears—Span Wires —Brackets—Feeders—Section Insulators—High-Tension Lines —Third-Rail System—Conduit Systems—Contact Plow—Current Leakage—Track Construction—Girder Rail—Trilby Groove Rail —Shanghai T-Rail—Common T-Rail—Track Support—Ballast — Joints (Welded, Cast-Welded, Electrically Welded, Thermit-Welded) —Bonding and Return Circuits—Feeder Systems—Block Signals — Electrolysis and Its Prevention.
Power Supply and Distribution
Page 98
Direct-Current Feeding—Booster Feeding—Alternating-Current Transmission—Interurban Distribution—Power-House Location —Alternating-Current Generators—Double-Current Generators —General Plan of Power Stations—Switchboards—Generator D. C. Panels—Starting Up a Generator—Feeder Panel — Alternating-Current Switchboards—High-Tension Oil-Switches — Storage Batteries in Stations—Three-Phase Motors—Single-Phase Motors.
Operation of Electric Railways
Page 115
Power Taken by Cars—Road Tests of Cars—Economy in Power — Sliding and Spinning Wheels—Testing for Faults—Bond Testing —Motor-Coil Testing—Grounds—Burn-Outs—Defects of Armature Windings—Sparking at Commutator—Failure of Car to Start — Open-Circuit Tests—Short-Circuit Tests—Fuse-Blows—Armature and Field Tests for Grounds—Reversed Fields—Car Repair Shops.
The Single-Phase Electric Railway
Page 137
Commutator Type Single-Phase Motor—Advantages and Disadvantages of Single-Phase System—Lines in Operation.
Index
Page 149

HEAVY-DUTY CROSS-COMPOUND CONDENSING ENGINE, DIRECT CONNECTED
TO 1,500 K.W. RAILWAY GENERATOR.
St. Louis Transit Company’s Power House.
Fulton Iron Works.