. The Street railway journal . FIG. -INTERIOR OF TOWER CAR for without extra inducement in the way of low fares. Themanagement is of the wide-awake kind, that realizes the possi- FIG. 9.—TOWER CAR company has 600 coal cars like those shown in Fig. 2. Poweris all supplied from one main power station at Winstan-ley Park, at the edge of East St. Louis, near theend of the St. Louis & Belleville freight line. Thecurrent is transmitted at 13,000 volts to the sub-stations on the interurban lines. Direct-currentgenerators supply the East St. Louis local lines. The power station is equipped with simple
. The Street railway journal . FIG. -INTERIOR OF TOWER CAR for without extra inducement in the way of low fares. Themanagement is of the wide-awake kind, that realizes the possi- FIG. 9.—TOWER CAR company has 600 coal cars like those shown in Fig. 2. Poweris all supplied from one main power station at Winstan-ley Park, at the edge of East St. Louis, near theend of the St. Louis & Belleville freight line. Thecurrent is transmitted at 13,000 volts to the sub-stations on the interurban lines. Direct-currentgenerators supply the East St. Louis local lines. The power station is equipped with simple non-condensing engines, as Lichter & Jens, consultingengineers, figured that coal was so cheap that thesaving by condensing would not pay interest andmaintenance on the extra cost of a compound con-densing station with the necessary cooling towers orponds. The consulting engineers calculated thatunless the cost of coal was above 85 cents therewould be nothing gained by putting in condensingapparatus, and as the comp
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