. The Street railway journal . POLES AND BRACKETS pumping house, which is situated on the Rhone just aboveLa Jonction and the property of the Compagnie Gene-voise. A view is here shown of the present enlargedChevres plant, for which we are indebted to Brown, Boveri& Company, of Baden, Switzerland, whose two-phase ma-. SECTION OF TRACK CONSTRUCTION chines, supplied more recently, are seen in the machines have each a capacity of 1200 hp andfurnish two-phase current at a frequency of forty-fiveperiods per second at a potential of either 5500 volts or2750 volts, at will. They are of


. The Street railway journal . POLES AND BRACKETS pumping house, which is situated on the Rhone just aboveLa Jonction and the property of the Compagnie Gene-voise. A view is here shown of the present enlargedChevres plant, for which we are indebted to Brown, Boveri& Company, of Baden, Switzerland, whose two-phase ma-. SECTION OF TRACK CONSTRUCTION chines, supplied more recently, are seen in the machines have each a capacity of 1200 hp andfurnish two-phase current at a frequency of forty-fiveperiods per second at a potential of either 5500 volts or2750 volts, at will. They are of the umbrella, vertical-shafttype, with fixed armature and revolving field, having forty-six poles carried by the cone-shaped magnet wheel. Abovethe machines is seen the large white marble switchboard ofthirty panels and about 65 ft. in length, in the center beingthe three panels reserved for the service to the city, thetramways and the transformers at 2500 volts. This new -^ RE FAIR SHOPS A Mr — 1 hi i 1 1 OFFICES / 1 1 0 X AVENUE OE LA JONCTION / I , 1:3000 Street PLAN OF PROPERTY AT LA JONCTION melted resinous composition is applied by a pipe leadinginto the joint, the opening of said pipe having been pre-viously stopped with a wax plug. The hot compoundmelts the plug and the vacuum does


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