. The Street railway journal . VIEW SHOWING PIPING, PUMPS, HEATER AND BOILERS IN POWERTWO MORE BATTERIES OF BOILERS HAVE SINCE BEEN A STATIONDDED NO. 1. November 28, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 941. omitted. Above the panels, and with each leg separated bymarble barriers, are 500-amp., three-phase, 10,000-volt sticktype circuit breakers, those protecting the machines being hand-operated and those protecting the lines being automatic. Theoutgoing lines, both high tension and direct current, pass belowthe engine room floor to a chute in the wall separating the twosections of the building. The
. The Street railway journal . VIEW SHOWING PIPING, PUMPS, HEATER AND BOILERS IN POWERTWO MORE BATTERIES OF BOILERS HAVE SINCE BEEN A STATIONDDED NO. 1. November 28, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 941. omitted. Above the panels, and with each leg separated bymarble barriers, are 500-amp., three-phase, 10,000-volt sticktype circuit breakers, those protecting the machines being hand-operated and those protecting the lines being automatic. Theoutgoing lines, both high tension and direct current, pass belowthe engine room floor to a chute in the wall separating the twosections of the building. The direct-current lines pass throughtile conduits for a distance of 200 yds. away from the building. and are then carried up to the pole line. The high-tensionlines are carried through the chute to the top of the buildingand are carried to the pole line from the rear. In this way nowires leave the building from the front or sides. The lightningarresters, of the Westinghouse low-equivalent type, are inmarble barriers at the base of the chute, and are accessible fromthe boiler room. The boilers installed are duplicates of those in the station at
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