Ahlborn, G: Data on Electric Railway Track Leakage (Classic

Excerpt from Data on Electric Railway Track LeakageThis line has a very low elevation, and is surrounded by marshes, and its resistance. To ground is unusually low while the rail resist ance is very high, being 1 times that of solid rail for this weight. In other Words, the average resistance of each j oint is equal to that of 470 feet of rail. For _a considerable per cent of the distance only one rail was carrying any current, and it also undoubtedly had frequent high-resistance joints.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.