Identifier: streetrailwayrev161amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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iiti/?r£Mr.702 A ( \ //T772 ; 992 //.31 CfirTRRGO/2JZ Z0./6 tV/ri£#jpj/3 as In 1 Si PORTION OF SCHEDULE SHOWING FIVE-CENT FARE LIMITS. and transformer rooms. Two three-phase high-tension lines, onefor railway and the other for lighting purposes, pass into the build-ing through porcelain tubes secured in 12 x 12-in. girders whichare set in the brick walls just below the eaves. From the arresters May 15, 1906. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 239 the wires pass directly to the rotary room where stick breakers,controlling the high voltage, are located. The switchboard is locatednear the south wall of the rotary room. There, are two 200-kw.rotarics immediately in front of the switchboard. In the railwayend of the transformer room six 75-kw. transformers are arrangedin banks of three along the north ami south walls. Direct currentis carried from the building by No. 3 insulated cables, which feedthe trolley wire at half-mile intervals The lighting equipment arranged in the western half of the build-
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LIGHTNING ARRESTER ROOM IN THE COLUMBIA SUB-STATION. ing has a capacity of 400 kw. and furnishes current for power andlighting purposes in the borough of Columbia. The power house, located at Engleside, which furnishes power forthe whole of the Conestoga Traction Cos. property and for theLancaster County lighting properties, now has a generating capa-city of 2.000 kw. and is being increased to 3,000 kw. to care for thenew properties now being taken over. The installations which arebeing made include a Westinghouse 1,000-kw. generator, four Bab-cock & Wilcox boilers of 520 h.p. each, a Green fuel economizer,two Cochrane heaters, a 1,500-h.p. direct-connected engine and 12transformers. A reinforced concrete stack 190 ft. high, with an 8-ft.inside diameter has been constructed. Service Stripes for Street Railway Employes. The officials of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern TractionCo. have raised the wages of their conductors and motormen andmade arrangements to decorate them

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