Identifier: electricrailwayr162amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e and 5 feet deep and extends under the blower sets andthe three step-down transformers. The other trench is 1foot 9 inches wide and 3 feet deep, and extends under therotary converter bases, affording a convenient conduit forconnecting their cables with the switchboard at the endof the building. The electrical equipment and the auxiliaries in this sta-tion are of Westinghouse make and include the following:Three 300-kw., 600-volt, 3-phase 2o-cycle rotary converters,three 330-kw., 2,300-430-volt air-cooled transformers, 12-panelswitchboard with 6 machine panels and 6 feeder panels, andtwo motor-driven American blower fans with induction motors. The accompanying illustration will serve to make plainthe general design of this substation. It was the aim of theengineering department of the Denver City Tramway to builda station which could be relied upon for continual service,and, therefore, especial care was taken to avoid the use ofany combustible materials and to arrange the apparatus so
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East Colfax Substation, Denver City Tramway—Interior Viev for the static station will be placed in the basement andevery precaution taken to make it fireproof. One of the feeder lines 6% miles long serves the newEast Colfax substation. This line is now operated at 2,300volts pressure, but will, with the completion of the staticstation, be operated at 13,200 volts. The East Colfax substation is located in the residencedistrict of Denver and serves to furnish 600-volt current for that any accident to one section would not incapacitate theothers. The car barns and shops of the Gait Preston & HespelerStreet Railway and the Preston & Berlin Railway at Preston,Ont., were totally destroyed by fire during the early morningof December 4. The loss amounts to about $75,000 includingeight valuable interurban cars which were in the building December, 1906. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 993 STREET RAILWAY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA-TIONS. BY H. O. WILLIAMS, SECKEIABY, INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE,

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