. The street railway review . d to the exhaust and steam pipe of each engine. The street railway plant is on the ground floor, butupon the second floor, set upon a solid concrete base, arefive engines of 300-horse-power for the light plant. TheGeneral Electric multipolar dynamos are ten in number,direct coupled to the engine shaft, with the commutatorson the face of the armature and practically a part of thewinding. There are six feeders to each gramme ring armature is 84 inches in diameter. There is at present completed a system 78 miles in Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Compa
. The street railway review . d to the exhaust and steam pipe of each engine. The street railway plant is on the ground floor, butupon the second floor, set upon a solid concrete base, arefive engines of 300-horse-power for the light plant. TheGeneral Electric multipolar dynamos are ten in number,direct coupled to the engine shaft, with the commutatorson the face of the armature and practically a part of thewinding. There are six feeders to each gramme ring armature is 84 inches in diameter. There is at present completed a system 78 miles in Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Company-, of Milwaukee,made the handsome and durable center poles. The meager sketch given here of the system showsonly a few broad generalities, which a close inspectionwill resolve into many interesting particulars. The temporary plant near the Kinnickinnick avenuebarn is a 1,000-horse-power auxiliary to the main plant,intended only for a few months use, but which nowhas been doing first-class economical service for nearly a. THE NEW KINNICKINNICK BARN. THE STORE FRONT VIEW. The Italian marble switch board, made by the GeneralElectric Company, is in two sections, one for the dyna-mos and one for the 40 of feeders. All feeders are laid inEdison underground tubing, feeding in 21 sections. Thefeeders are fused at both ends. The trolley line is mostlyof the center pole pattern and the wire is No. 2 harddrawn copper. The auxiliary main is of No. o wire, and to this mainthe feeders are connected, and at every fourth pole a sub-feed is taken off the trolley from the auxiliary main. THE MACHINE CAR STORAGE. year. The engines are a second-hand Providence-Cor-liss and a second-hand Reynolds-Corliss, of 500-horse-power each. The site was formerly a foundry, but inspite of all these conditions the plant is as neat as careand scrubbing can make it. SOME FEATURES that are commended to the investigation of visitors at theconvention are the methods of ground return, which is byrai
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