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Interurban electric power questions
Author: Richard
Date: 04-15-2015 - 14:49

1. An acquaintance has told me that his family and neighbors along the tracks used to get electric power from an interurban line that was 110 VAC at 25 cps. But I’ve understood that interurbans typically ran on 600 VDC. Also he says there were no conversion stations anywhere nearby. So does this make sense, and if so, how did this conversion take place?

2. Since interurbans and streetecars ran on DC, and DC can’t be transmitted very far (contrary to AC), how was the DC voltage maintained at considerable distances from the power stations?

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