Pacific service magazine . d. The new Station E,on Linda Avenue, nearOakland Avenue, in Pied-mont, is somewhat simplerelectrically than StationL. Due to its locationin a high value residentialdistrict, unusual consider-ation was given to thearchitectural design andthe planting of the lawn and shrubs. Inorder to carry the remainder of the streetrailway load from old Station E, two1,000-kilowatt motor-generator sets wereinstalled. With Station L and new Sta-tion E in operation, old Station E,with its obsolete equipment, was dis-continued. In addition to the railway equipment,space was provided f
Pacific service magazine . d. The new Station E,on Linda Avenue, nearOakland Avenue, in Pied-mont, is somewhat simplerelectrically than StationL. Due to its locationin a high value residentialdistrict, unusual consider-ation was given to thearchitectural design andthe planting of the lawn and shrubs. Inorder to carry the remainder of the streetrailway load from old Station E, two1,000-kilowatt motor-generator sets wereinstalled. With Station L and new Sta-tion E in operation, old Station E,with its obsolete equipment, was dis-continued. In addition to the railway equipment,space was provided for the erection, laterin the year, of the necessary transformersand switches for certain 4,000-volt distribu-tion feeders which will then be requiredby the increased lighting load in that ter-ritory. All preliminary work in the wayof foundations, and ducts has been done inadvance, so that it will be a simple matterto set this future equipment in place andmake the necessary connections. Additional substation work of miscel-. Substation Substation L, on Twentieth and Hobart streets in the heart ofthe city of Oakland. View taken from the Hobart street side. laneous character was done under cover,as it were, within the existing embraced the installation of some newtransformers at Station F, Berkeley, anew 1,000-kilowatt motor-generator set atStation H, Twenty-third Avenue, Oak-land, and a considerable volume of scat-tered improvements and expansions. This is the story of the substation pro-gram as carried out for the year 1925. Thelay reader, to whom transformers, convert-ers and switches are merely electrical terms,will undoubtedly be most impressed by thecosts of substation construction. Hereto-fore he has not realized perhaps that asimple concrete building costing a fewthousand dollars could contain electricalequipment mounting into the hundreds ofthousands of dollars. One new consumer signing an applica-tion for electric servicedoes not present much ofa problem, b
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