. The Street railway journal . desired by pres-sure wires, affords an inexpensive method of keeping watchof the circuit conditions and enables current that might bewasted to be saved. It is equally easy to equip the boilerfeed pumps with pilot lamps which will flash the approxi-mate rate of feed water supply at any point in the plant,particularly in stations too small to require a special manat the feed pumps all the time. Telephone calls and engineroom signals are also readily equipped with pilot lamp ortransparency connections, and in one or two instancespilot lamps have been very successful
. The Street railway journal . desired by pres-sure wires, affords an inexpensive method of keeping watchof the circuit conditions and enables current that might bewasted to be saved. It is equally easy to equip the boilerfeed pumps with pilot lamps which will flash the approxi-mate rate of feed water supply at any point in the plant,particularly in stations too small to require a special manat the feed pumps all the time. Telephone calls and engineroom signals are also readily equipped with pilot lamp ortransparency connections, and in one or two instancespilot lamps have been very successfully used to showwhich of a score or more feeder circuit breakers hasopened under overload, thereby considerably shortening thetime of interruption. 448 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 12. THE NORTHERN ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY COMPANYOF SCRANTON, PA. Whoever travels through the anthracite coal belt in thevicinity of Scranton, Pa., cannot fail to notice the numerousunsightly culm piles and breaker buildings which disfigure. street Raitway ■/■juynal PRESENT AND PROPOSED ROUTES OF THE NORTHERNELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY COMPANY, SCRANTON, PA. but hitherto the territory has been practically inaccessiblefor the commuter. The only means for traveling north wasby the Lackawanna Railroad, which, together with thepublic highway, occupied practically all of the availableland in the defile formed by the hills. Owing to its enor-mous carload freight business, the steam railroad could notgive the proper attention toward the development of localpassenger business; neither was any strong effort made tofoster local freight traffic and thus relieve the farmers anddairymen from the long and expensive wagon hauls toScranton. While the construction of an electric railway through thiscountry had been agitated for several years, the engineeringdifficulties discouraged active work until early in 1906,when the Northern Electric Street Railway Company wasorganized to build an electric railway from
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