• DocumentCode
    1048440
  • Title

    The Lighting of Railway Classification Yards

  • Author

    Johnson, George T.

  • Author_Institution
    Asst. Elec. Eng., The New York, New Haven & Hart-ford Railroad Company.
  • fYear
    1926
  • Firstpage
    1236
  • Lastpage
    1241
  • Abstract
    This paper deals primarily with the illumination of modern large classification yards of the hump type in which the traffic is in one direction. Floodlighting is advocated as the most generally satisfactory system, and various arrangements, to meet the different conditions of yard layout, space available, etc., are described.
  • Keywords
    Lamps; Lighting; Performance evaluation; Rail transportation; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-3860
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-AIEE.1926.5061320
  • Filename
    5061320