. The Street railway journal . ll as electricaldistribution stations. These stations are all built with con-crete foundations for both buildings and machinery, and thewalls are of brick with natural cement mortar. The roofs areof slate. Each station is 39 ft. 8 ins. wide by 45 ft. long overall. The height of the station part proper is 15 ft. 8 ins., andof the transformer tower 29 ft. Each contains a waiting room,18 ft. x 12 ft.; a baggage room, 18 ft. x 12 ft.; a ticket office,14 ft. 6 ins. x 7 ft.; a rotary converter room, 20 ft. 6 ins. x25 ft., and a transformer tower for the entrance of the
. The Street railway journal . ll as electricaldistribution stations. These stations are all built with con-crete foundations for both buildings and machinery, and thewalls are of brick with natural cement mortar. The roofs areof slate. Each station is 39 ft. 8 ins. wide by 45 ft. long overall. The height of the station part proper is 15 ft. 8 ins., andof the transformer tower 29 ft. Each contains a waiting room,18 ft. x 12 ft.; a baggage room, 18 ft. x 12 ft.; a ticket office,14 ft. 6 ins. x 7 ft.; a rotary converter room, 20 ft. 6 ins. x25 ft., and a transformer tower for the entrance of the elec-trical wires, 8 ft. x 25 ft. Views of the several stations, to- gether with a plan and cross-section, illustrating the principalfeatures, will be found among the illustrations. The Pittsford and Seneca Castle stations contain two 300-kwrotary converters, three 200-kw static transformers, three fuseswitches and circuit breakers for 20,000 volts, three lightningarresters with choke coils, and one switchboard, consisting of. VICTOR SUB-STATION, EXPRESS AND PASSENGER DEPOT two alternating-current rotary converter panels, one direct-current rotary converter panel, and one double feeder panel. The Victor station has been laid out for the same machinery,but until contemplated extensions are made there will be in-stalled one 300-kw rotary converter, three 200-kw trans-formers, three choke coils, six fuse switches, and three light-ning arresters. The switchboard comprises one alternating- nutter nnlj od tvr> sides uf Tiand to lio pitched in ttie insid.
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