Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 116
eight-locomotive act-ing as a pusher. By no means the least wonderful feature of thisrailroad is that the electrical power to operateover these 440 miles of road-bed and an additional200 miles of spurs and yards is obtained not fromcoal, as might be supposed, but from a waterfallat Great Falls,… … THE WORLDS MIGHTIEST LOCOMOTI\E. The 100,000-volt alternating current is receivedthrough oil switches, is conveyed to the high-ten-sion current-distributor, made up of three lines of 656 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS LMay, copper tul)ing, and there forms the source ofpower for the substation.…
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