. The Street railway journal . ation of the three-phase generat-ing plant, continuous railway current was furnished direct-ly to the trolley line at 550 volts from the Cripple Creeklighting station, where the railroad company installed aGeneral Electric 225-kw. multipolar direct ciirrent gen-erator driven by an Armington & Sims compound engine. serted in an eye in the free end of the switch. The switchblades are separated from each other by marble barriers toeliminate all chance of arcing between the blades. Inorder to bring the blades away from the board both hingeand clips are mounted on cor
. The Street railway journal . ation of the three-phase generat-ing plant, continuous railway current was furnished direct-ly to the trolley line at 550 volts from the Cripple Creeklighting station, where the railroad company installed aGeneral Electric 225-kw. multipolar direct ciirrent gen-erator driven by an Armington & Sims compound engine. serted in an eye in the free end of the switch. The switchblades are separated from each other by marble barriers toeliminate all chance of arcing between the blades. Inorder to bring the blades away from the board both hingeand clips are mounted on corrugated iubber cones about3^ .ins. high. Similar pyramids intervene between theback of the board and the high potential connections. ball lightning arresters are used, one set being placed inthe generating station itself, and another in a lightningarrester house a few feet distant from the station. As thestation and line are situated in a locality some 10,000 sea level, where electric storms are frequent, the.
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