. The street railway review . nating current at 2,200 volts. The governors are after the design of Faesch & interesting feature of the governing is that only one iseffective. The alternators are run in multiple so that theymust run in synchronism and the speed be that of the fastestgovernor. In practice it is impossible to set all the gover-nors for the same speed and only the one set for the highestspeed does the work. The power station which houses the generators andcovers the wheel pit is a handsome building of Queenston ^1Jicd%\hv^%vleW (16;$ limestone in the Moorish style of ar
. The street railway review . nating current at 2,200 volts. The governors are after the design of Faesch & interesting feature of the governing is that only one iseffective. The alternators are run in multiple so that theymust run in synchronism and the speed be that of the fastestgovernor. In practice it is impossible to set all the gover-nors for the same speed and only the one set for the highestspeed does the work. The power station which houses the generators andcovers the wheel pit is a handsome building of Queenston ^1Jicd%\hv^%vleW (16;$ limestone in the Moorish style of architeeture and is alongthe side of the canal. A hridgc connects it with the trans-former house. The machinery hall is a plain pilch-roofstructure that can readilv he extentleil to cover the new renlin>^- power. In this connection should lie nieuticnieil thefacilities for swilchiuLr which are afforded by the Niagarafunction Railway Company (an allied company) wherebyany occuj)ant of a mill-site may receive cars from and. wheel pit without marring its symmetry. Three of the lounits contemplated were first installed and during the lastsummer work has been progressing on the new wheel pitwhich when completed will provide for the other sevenunits. The \iagara Power Company owns 1,072 acres of landal>out its station, and leases it to manufacturing concerns deliver them directly to any of the railroads entering theBuffalo-Niagara Falls district. The first lo use power from this plant was the Pittsburgl< eduction Company which has a contract for 3,500 h. current is by means of static and rotary transformersconverted to a direct current at 160 volts. This conversionis in two parts; first in static transformers to a two-phase 664 ^1)^S\g/Acw* alternating current at 115 volts; second, in rotary convertersto a direct current at 160 volts. This company is engagedin the manufacture of pure aluminum from an oxide of themetal bv smelting it in retoits, the mass being melt
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