. The Street railway journal . estment in electric street railway systems and aconsiderable mileage is under operation. One of the first street railway systems of Japan to adoptelectrical operation on a large scale was the Tokio TramwayCompany (Tokio Densha Tetsudo Kabushiki Kwaisha), whichhas now over 250 car equipments in operation. This was thefirst street railway of any description in the country and wasinaugurated about fifteen years ago as a horse railway. Theroad was then capitalized at $850,000. When it was decided tochange to electric traction, in 1901, the capital was increasedto $2,
. The Street railway journal . estment in electric street railway systems and aconsiderable mileage is under operation. One of the first street railway systems of Japan to adoptelectrical operation on a large scale was the Tokio TramwayCompany (Tokio Densha Tetsudo Kabushiki Kwaisha), whichhas now over 250 car equipments in operation. This was thefirst street railway of any description in the country and wasinaugurated about fifteen years ago as a horse railway. Theroad was then capitalized at $850,000. When it was decided tochange to electric traction, in 1901, the capital was increasedto $2,500,000, divided into 100,000 shares of $25 each, and aninclusive contract was entered into with the General ElectricCompany for the supply of the entire new equipment, bothsteam and electrical, necessary for the complete outfitting ofthe railway. In view of the fact that extensions to this lineare to be made, some particulars of the present equipment maybe of interest. The franchise of the road covers 13 miles of streets, all. AN EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE POWER STATION within the city. About 10 miles of the line is on the Ginza, theBroadway of Tokio, extending through Uyeno Park toShinagawa, the next city below Tokio, where the power stationis located. A branch line runs out to another section of thecity known as Asakusa. To handle the service on these lines the company installed a system of electric generation and distribution conforming tothe latest American practice. The generating station, shownin two of the accompanying views, contains three 1200-kwunits, each consisting of a 28-pole, 6600-volt, 25-cycle, direct-connected, three-phase generator driven at 107 r. p. m. by ahorizontal cross-compound engine. These engines were builtby Mcintosh & Seymour, of Auburn, N. Y., and have cylinders30 ins. and 62 ins. x 42 ins., designed for 140 lbs. initial pres-sure. Two of these units are normally in use, the third being
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