. The Street railway journal . 0=± 0s—. The interior lighting equipment consists of forty-seven16-cp incandescent lamps. Heat is supplied by a simplesystem of Colonial wall-type steam radiators, supplied bysteam from the locomotive roundhouse. SUB-STATION EQUIPMENT. The transmission line terminates at the lightning arresteryard in the rear of the sub-station. The arrangement ofthe 60,000-volt lightning arresters consists of three horngaps, arranged one behind the other, on each of the threeconductors, the first gap being 4%-ins. across, the second 5,and the third 6 ins. A concrete column is in
. The Street railway journal . 0=± 0s—. The interior lighting equipment consists of forty-seven16-cp incandescent lamps. Heat is supplied by a simplesystem of Colonial wall-type steam radiators, supplied bysteam from the locomotive roundhouse. SUB-STATION EQUIPMENT. The transmission line terminates at the lightning arresteryard in the rear of the sub-station. The arrangement ofthe 60,000-volt lightning arresters consists of three horngaps, arranged one behind the other, on each of the threeconductors, the first gap being 4%-ins. across, the second 5,and the third 6 ins. A concrete column is in series with thefirst gap, an electrolytic arrester in series with the secondand a 5-ft. fuse of No. 18 copper wire in series with thethird; that is to say, between one horn and the horns of each gap are of J^-in. round iron. Between theline and the first arrester there is a hook-type knife switch,and between the last arrester and the lead into the sub-station, there is a No. 18 copper wire fuse, in each con-ductor, placed
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