. The Street railway journal . FIG. 32.—PIPING SYSTEM OF THE MAIN POWER PLANT standard two-panel type, and adjoins the station switchboard. regular pole line, three feeders going in each direction. This The six 1,000,000-circ. mil feeder cables from the switch- feeder-wire bridge is illustrated in Fig. 35. The cables are board are carried up the east wall of the engine room and out supported on five single eight-pin cross arms, 5 ft 10 ins. long, through the north wall onto a bridge, which takes them to the which, in turn, are carried on two 2-in. x 12-in. pieces that are 280 STREET RAILWAY JO
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 32.—PIPING SYSTEM OF THE MAIN POWER PLANT standard two-panel type, and adjoins the station switchboard. regular pole line, three feeders going in each direction. This The six 1,000,000-circ. mil feeder cables from the switch- feeder-wire bridge is illustrated in Fig. 35. The cables are board are carried up the east wall of the engine room and out supported on five single eight-pin cross arms, 5 ft 10 ins. long, through the north wall onto a bridge, which takes them to the which, in turn, are carried on two 2-in. x 12-in. pieces that are 280 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 8. fastened to the poles. At the end, over the track, are doublecross-arms, from which the feeders are carried to the centerpoles. ROLLING STOCK The rolling stock at present in service on the Key Route. FIG. 34.—STORAGE BATTERY IN KEY ROUTE POWER HOUSE comprises sixteen passenger cars, such as were shown in and 15 (in the last issue), and Figs. 36 and 36a, which arepresented herewith. They are of the light railway passengertype, arranged for carrying passengers only. The cars areoperated in trains, under the General Electrictype-M multiple-unit train control are four motor cars and four controlcars, the remaining eight being ordinary trailcoaches. In body construction all the carsare of the same pattern and dimensions, thisstyle having been adopted as the standard forthis service. The general dimensions are asfollows: Length over body, 44 ft. 11% ins.;length over vestibules, 54 ft. 7*4 ins.; widthover side sills, 8 ft. 8y2 ins.; width over body,9 ft.; height from bottom of sill to top of deck,9 ft. 6 ins.; height from top of rail to top ofdeck, 12 ft. g^i ins. The side, or main sills,are of 5-in. x 8-in. long-leaf yellow pine, rein-forced with 6-in. channel. St
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