. The Street railway journal . t of the Hamamatsu Cho sub-station is similarto that of the station described, except that it contains tworotaries instead of four. Included also in the General Electric Companys contractwere trolley wire and overhead line material for 10 miles ofdouble track, together with 250 cantilever motor trucks builtby the Peckham Manufacturing Company and equipped withGE 1000 motors. The car bodies were built in Japan, and areof light construction, so that single-motor equipments werefound to be of sufficient capacity. The cars are housed in acommodious car house, contain
. The Street railway journal . t of the Hamamatsu Cho sub-station is similarto that of the station described, except that it contains tworotaries instead of four. Included also in the General Electric Companys contractwere trolley wire and overhead line material for 10 miles ofdouble track, together with 250 cantilever motor trucks builtby the Peckham Manufacturing Company and equipped withGE 1000 motors. The car bodies were built in Japan, and areof light construction, so that single-motor equipments werefound to be of sufficient capacity. The cars are housed in acommodious car house, containing- a transfer table, which isalso operated by GE 1000 motors. The electric service was inaugurated on March 17, 1904, andit is of interest to note that the entire work of installation andoperation has been exclusively in the hands of native engineers,without direct assistance of any kind from the manufacturingcompany which supplied the apparatus. The manner in whichthis work has been carried out, as shown by the accompanying. INTERIOR OF POWER STATION, SHOWING MAIN GENERATING SETS, PIPING, SWITCHBOARD AND CRANE direct-connected starting motor and all of the rotaries withswitchboard arrangements for starting from the d. c. side. The sub-station switchboards are in accordance with recentpractice for this class of work and include no features of nov-elty. Attention may be called, however, to the direct-current views, is a distinct compliment to the skill and thoroughnessof those in charge. The president of the railway is Mudaguchi, and the tech-nical department is in charge of M. Enya, chief engineer, whoalso directed the entire work of installation. February 18, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 309 SHOP EQUIPMENT OF THE NEW REPAIR SHOPS INSTALL-ATION OF THE DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY COMPANY In an article in the preceding issue a description was pre-sented of the shop layout, with details of building arrangementand equipment, of the new repair shop installation recentlyplaced in
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