. Electric railway journal . heavily ballasted and will be oiled to prevent dust. Thelaying of the rails is progressing rapidly. These rails willbe of ferro-titanium alloy, 70 lb. per yard, A. S. C. 1300-volt interpole generator rated at 514 , one1080-hp synchronous 11,000-volt, three-phase, 60-cycle mo-tor, with one 18-kw, 125-volt exciter on shaft, oneswitchboard equipped with one synchronous motor panel,one general panel and three feeder panels. Thesubstation at Redwood Peak, which will have to provide forthe heaviest load, is equipped with two complete
. Electric railway journal . heavily ballasted and will be oiled to prevent dust. Thelaying of the rails is progressing rapidly. These rails willbe of ferro-titanium alloy, 70 lb. per yard, A. S. C. 1300-volt interpole generator rated at 514 , one1080-hp synchronous 11,000-volt, three-phase, 60-cycle mo-tor, with one 18-kw, 125-volt exciter on shaft, oneswitchboard equipped with one synchronous motor panel,one general panel and three feeder panels. Thesubstation at Redwood Peak, which will have to provide forthe heaviest load, is equipped with two complete sets of 728 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 16. this equipment, while the other four substations have but asingle set. There will also be one portable substation of350-kw capacity. Overhead catenary construction is of the Westinghousetype, 1200-volt No. 000 trolley, 7/16 Siemens-Martin steelmessenger, with a 600,000-circ. mil aluminum feeder. Un-til the completion of the bridge across Suisun Bay current Symeti ical. Oakland, Antioch & Eastern—Concrete Tunnel Section will be transmitted from Bay Point beneath the surface bytwo submarine cables, 250,000 circ. mils, 3/32-in. Pararubber taped, wound with 1/16-in. varnished cloth and in-closed in jii-m. plain lead sheath, with No. B. W. G. gal-vanized armor, and a jute and lime finish over all. Twotelephone cables will be laid beside the power cable. Eachwill consist of two pairs of No. 16 B. & S. G strand, in-sulated with three wraps of dry paper, 3/32-in. lead sheathand No. 10 B. W. G. galvanized armor.
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