. Electric railway review . Njroitni:, Seneca Street Substation, Buffalo— Bulbar Compartment! and Method of Making Switch and Potential Transformer Taps. Hide of Qm ity of Buffalo are supplied wit ii pawn from brick with sandstone trimmings, and concrete Boors ami rool substations located at North Tonawanda, Lockport, Olcotl reinforced with expanded metal and half-inch Iron and in Power-honee No. i of the Niagara Falls Power Com spaced six Indies apart:,;,,r. Floor Construction. All of these stations operate on power from the in preparing the main Boor heavy [•beams wen Niagara Kails Power Com
. Electric railway review . Njroitni:, Seneca Street Substation, Buffalo— Bulbar Compartment! and Method of Making Switch and Potential Transformer Taps. Hide of Qm ity of Buffalo are supplied wit ii pawn from brick with sandstone trimmings, and concrete Boors ami rool substations located at North Tonawanda, Lockport, Olcotl reinforced with expanded metal and half-inch Iron and in Power-honee No. i of the Niagara Falls Power Com spaced six Indies apart:,;,,r. Floor Construction. All of these stations operate on power from the in preparing the main Boor heavy [•beams wen Niagara Kails Power Company and those at North Tone so that their tops are at tie- ame level The rarlou 216 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII, No. 7. openings were then framed-in with 6-inch channels restingon top of the beams. The floor consists of 5% inches of con-crete finished off with V% inch of monolith surface. Thepr6cess of laying the floor was as follows: After placingthe wood forms, %-inch round-iron rods spaced 6 inches. Seneca Street Substation. Buffalo—Cross-Section Showing Detailsof Building Construction. apart were laid and covered over with expanded metal, thetwo being wired together firmly. The control-wiring con-duit of flexible steel tubing was then put in place and wiredto the expanded metal. When the concrete was poured, therods, expanded metal and conduit were all lifted togetherso that no portion of the metal was within % inch of the of cheapness in laying, perfect symmetry of short bends andno difficulty about keeping the ducts close to the ex-panded metal at all points, thus obtaining the maximum pos-sible depth of concrete above the ducts and preventing frac-tures in the concrete. The flexible conduit comes nearlyenough to being water-tight for practical purposes. Wherethe conduits come horizontally out of the floor they are ledthrough holes of suitable size drilled in the channels and theends are capped with rigid outlet bushings secured snuglyagainst the channels. Wh
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