. Electric railway review . cables, also lugs and taps. H. B. Logan, president,and H. B. Dossert, vice-president. Atha Steel Casting Company, Newark, N. J. Two sam-ples of the Titan steel motor gears were exhibited, onewhich had been tested for miles on a car of the Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company without showing wear, andanother which had been used for three months on a car ofthe Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Louis , secretary. HIGH-TENSION TRANSMISSION LINE AT Y. There has been completed recently in Syracuse, N. Y., ahigh-potential electric power t
. Electric railway review . cables, also lugs and taps. H. B. Logan, president,and H. B. Dossert, vice-president. Atha Steel Casting Company, Newark, N. J. Two sam-ples of the Titan steel motor gears were exhibited, onewhich had been tested for miles on a car of the Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company without showing wear, andanother which had been used for three months on a car ofthe Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Louis , secretary. HIGH-TENSION TRANSMISSION LINE AT Y. There has been completed recently in Syracuse, N. Y., ahigh-potential electric power transmission line which is inter-esting not only as forming part of a 175-mile line from NiagaraFalls to Syracuse, on which the initial potential is to be60,000 volts, 3-phase, but because of the careful designand the precautions taken to avoid accidents. The Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway Company is toreceive 5,000 horsepower over this line, measured at the sub-station, which will be used to supplement its power generating. High-Tension Transmission Line at Syracuse—General DesTop of 45-foot Steel Tower. plant in Syracuse. At this time the transmission company—the Niagara Lockport & Ontario Power Company—has a single3-phase line to Syracuse ending at the city limits whereconnection is made with the railway companys transmissionline. Later, when a second long-distance line is built, it willtap the Syracuse section at a point within the city loss in transmission is placed at about 8 per cent, andthe substation in Syracuse is designed, therefore, for on the incoming line. The section of the transmission line within the citylimits was built by the Archbold-Brady Company of Syracuse 400 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW July. 1906. for the Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway Company. Work onthis was begun on May 5, last, and the line was completedearly in July. This section is 10,888 feet long, and is car-ried on 40 steel towers. The longest span is 400 feet and thesho
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