. The Street railway journal . cribed in our January issue. The cars of thecompany were illustrated in our last number. the rail, and which span the joint plate. Connectionsare made every block to the return feeders which areplaced in subways. The subways, which contain all the undergroundfeeder cables, are of vitrified Akron clay, manufacturedby H. B. Camp, of Cuyahoga Falls, O. The feeders areof 1,000,000 circular mills capacity each, and are now be-ing drawn into the subways. They were all supplied bythe Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company, of NewYork, the contract given for these having
. The Street railway journal . cribed in our January issue. The cars of thecompany were illustrated in our last number. the rail, and which span the joint plate. Connectionsare made every block to the return feeders which areplaced in subways. The subways, which contain all the undergroundfeeder cables, are of vitrified Akron clay, manufacturedby H. B. Camp, of Cuyahoga Falls, O. The feeders areof 1,000,000 circular mills capacity each, and are now be-ing drawn into the subways. They were all supplied bythe Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company, of NewYork, the contract given for these having been the largestwhich was ever awarded for work of this character byany street railway company. The company has received fifty of its new cars, andthese are being mounted with electrical equipment. 125of these cars will use the General Electric 800 motor, and125 will be equipped with the Sperry motor cars are exceedingly tasteful in design, and are saidto be as handsome as any ever built for regular passenger. FIG. 2.—VIEW OF SEPARATORS—MARKET STREET POWER STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION CO. THE PEOPLES TRACTION COMPANY. The track construction of the Peoples Traction Com-pany is being pushed forward rapidly,under the supervisionof Chief Engineer L. H. Mclntire, and the power stationis nearing completion, so that it is expected that operationswill be commenced about the last of June. A brief descrip-tion of the work accomplished by the company is givenbelow, and full details of the plant will be published afterthe road has commenced operations. The power station is located between Delaware Ave-nue and Beech Street, near Fairmount Avenue, where willbe one of the most handsome buildings for the purposein the country. The engine plant will consist of Allisengines of the twin tandem compound, condensing type,of 2,000 h. p. each. Each will drive a 2,000 h. p. GeneralElectric generator located between the pairs of cylinders,and whose armatures are mounted directly o
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