. Electric railway journal . station. The Milwaukee system also receives about 8000 kwfrom the Kilbourn water power plant. The company has alsorecently completed the construction of its Clinton Street sub-station on the south side of Milwaukee, which will containfour 2000-kw, 25-cycle, 600-volt rotary converters, three ofwhich are being installed at once. This station has also beendesigned as a switching point for lighting service. John I. Beggs is president and general manager of the Mil-waukee Electric Railway & Light Company. C. J. Davidson ischief engineer of power plants, and O. M. Ran is
. Electric railway journal . station. The Milwaukee system also receives about 8000 kwfrom the Kilbourn water power plant. The company has alsorecently completed the construction of its Clinton Street sub-station on the south side of Milwaukee, which will containfour 2000-kw, 25-cycle, 600-volt rotary converters, three ofwhich are being installed at once. This station has also beendesigned as a switching point for lighting service. John I. Beggs is president and general manager of the Mil-waukee Electric Railway & Light Company. C. J. Davidson ischief engineer of power plants, and O. M. Ran is electricalengineer. SPECIAL TRACK CONSTRUCTION IN MOBILE, ALA. In carrying out some track work during the year 1908 theMobile Light & Railroad Company devised a special construc-tion for Dauphin Street, which has a clay subsoil. This streetcontains a great many water, sewer and gas pipes, a very largestorm sewer and telephone conduits, all of which had to belowered on account of the new grade, so that the street was. 15 Lbs. Rail Steel Tie. Fig. Electric Hi: Journal -Cross-Section of Mobile Track, Showing Old RailsUsed for Ties badly cut up with deep ditches which ran both parallel to andacross the tracks of the street railway. The city does not takeproper care of the back-filling, which naturally causes theearth to settle and so entails considerable trouble and expensein the maintenance of the track structure. It was, therefore,decided to put in an extraordinarily good track, the concretework of which would form an arch capable of holding up thetrack even though the filling in the ditches underneath shouldsettle. The engraving (Fig. 1) shows a cross-section of this work.
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