. The Street railway journal . COMBINED SUB-STATION AND CAR HOUSE storage battery has thirteen type F cells, having a capacityof 240 Sub-station No. 3 is on the Newcastledivision, and has two 200-kw rotaries, but no storage bat-teries. Each rotary has mounted on one end of its extendedshaft an alternating-current starting motor, and on theother end a differential booster, which supplies current toa feeder running from the sub-stations, about 5 miles be-fore it is tapped into the trolley and feeder lines. Thisarrangement insures the maintenance of not less than 500volts under all co
. The Street railway journal . COMBINED SUB-STATION AND CAR HOUSE storage battery has thirteen type F cells, having a capacityof 240 Sub-station No. 3 is on the Newcastledivision, and has two 200-kw rotaries, but no storage bat-teries. Each rotary has mounted on one end of its extendedshaft an alternating-current starting motor, and on theother end a differential booster, which supplies current toa feeder running from the sub-stations, about 5 miles be-fore it is tapped into the trolley and feeder lines. Thisarrangement insures the maintenance of not less than 500volts under all conditions of service. The rotaries arenormally operated at 650 volts, direct current. TRACK AND OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION The terminus of the line in Youngstown is in the centerof the city, and after passing over the streets for a fewblocks, goes upon private right of way, crossing by sub-. V1ADUCT CROSSING STEAM RAILROAD by a viaduct furnished by the bridge department of theUnited States Steel Company. Almost immediately there-
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