. Electric railway journal . e no limitations are placed on the domesticappliances available to purchasers of power. Another objection sometimes raised to an electricrailway entering the power and lighting field is thatthis business would require the railway companys gen-erating station to furnish a twenty-four-hour serviceinstead of running only eighteen or twenty hours tocarry the railway load. Some companies, of course,keep their generating stations in service twenty-fourhours to move freight trains over the road during thenight, but many of the stations are shut down fromabout 1 a. m. to 4
. Electric railway journal . e no limitations are placed on the domesticappliances available to purchasers of power. Another objection sometimes raised to an electricrailway entering the power and lighting field is thatthis business would require the railway companys gen-erating station to furnish a twenty-four-hour serviceinstead of running only eighteen or twenty hours tocarry the railway load. Some companies, of course,keep their generating stations in service twenty-fourhours to move freight trains over the road during thenight, but many of the stations are shut down fromabout 1 a. m. to a. m. Where the latter situationexists it is provided for in the contracts with consumersof energy for light and power, and with the class ofbusiness the electric railways have been obtaining, thisarrangement has not been found to be in any way ob-jectionable. Usually when this point is raised by prospective cus-tomers it is disposed of by simply calling attention tothe low rates that apply to the railway power. In quite. INTERURBAN POWER SALES TYPICAL OUTDOOR SUBSTATION FOR LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR TOWN OF 450 POPULATION a number of instances direct-current motor installationsare served, energy being supplied from the trolleyfeeders, and such contracts, of course, are accepted onlywhere the fluctuating voltage is not disadvantageous tothe consumer. Most of the contracts for energy for lighting andpower purposes have been made with municipalities,although there are quite a number of large industrialconsumers, and in a few instances individuals have madecontracts with both the railway and the municipalityto operate an independent lighting company. Wherethe municipality owns and operates the plant, the ratesto the consumers are so fixed that the profit will be suffi-cient to pay the cost of street lighting, and in someinstances, also, to pay for pumping the city watersupply. The rates to make this possible are generally cal-culated by the railways engineers, and it is an excep-tio
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