Sentences with phrase «overhead wires»

With battery packages like what was mentioned above, you could get regenerative braking with Diesel (or for that matter, any prime mover)- electric locomotives, without the expense and problems of overhead wires.

Unlike electric rails or overhead wires for electric light trains and busses, the vehicle wouldn't have to always be connected.

Buses will ditch their loud, smelly engines, he says, and streetcars will lose the cityscape - scarring overhead wires, swapping them for relatively small, light battery packs.

Electric buses are readily available, and becoming more common in European cities, while trolleybuses (buses powered by overhead wires) have been in use since the 1880s.

Transmission lines are typically overhead wires at voltages of 110 to 765 kilovolts supported by towers.

Hydrogen would also allow Metrolinx to run clean trains while avoiding the expensive and disruptive work of erecting overhead wires along hundreds of kilometers of track.

• Conduct preventive maintenance on the pre-laid underground and overhead wiring systems.

Performed wire management and data punch downs, installed overhead wire with the use of a cherry picker.

«They don't want to have to do all the work,» says Jeffrey Wood, principal of The Overhead Wire consulting firm in San Francisco.

C. Yep, those overhead wires really stand out from all the other overhead wires!!!! The really sad part about this article is that every religion has certain rites & customs that are unique, and the writer might as well be christian or a naturalist.

If youre in a car, drive to a clearing, away from trees, overpasses, bridges, tall buildings, and overhead wires.

The overhead wires on poles which may bring an adverse comment re a beautiful photo scene are capable of dating.

Years ago, one of the advantages of railroad electrification mentioned by advocates, was that kinetic energy of a train slowing down or going down a hill could be regenerated back into the overhead wires.

I have not shied away from including the street «furniture» of signage, overhead wires, and things that many perceive as ugly or «in the way» of a picturesque view.

From London's electric buses to large trucks running on overhead wires, the latest episode of Fully Charged goes large.

They do note the aesthetic problem - overhead wires.

McGrath thinks that the province should «stick with the overhead wires that get the job done.»

San Francisco About Blog The Overhead Wire is a consulting firm owned and operated by Jeff Wood in San Francisco California.

We've already installed and moved some electrical outlets, and installed overhead lighting in the 3 non-master bedrooms, which had no overhead wiring before.