. The street railway review . line is of No. 2 copper. Thegenerating potential at the power house is 2,300 volts, 60 cycle, andthe potential for transmission is 23,000 volts. The details of pole construction and of the malleable iron insu-lator pin used in this work are shown in the accompanying linedrawing. The Vancouver Power Gos, installation has been under the direc-tion of Mr. Wynn Meredith, consulting engineer of the EngineeringOffices (now Cory, Meredith and Allen, of San Francisco), assistedby Messrs. Hermon and Burwell, civil engineers, of R. H. Sperling, chief engineer
. The street railway review . line is of No. 2 copper. Thegenerating potential at the power house is 2,300 volts, 60 cycle, andthe potential for transmission is 23,000 volts. The details of pole construction and of the malleable iron insu-lator pin used in this work are shown in the accompanying linedrawing. The Vancouver Power Gos, installation has been under the direc-tion of Mr. Wynn Meredith, consulting engineer of the EngineeringOffices (now Cory, Meredith and Allen, of San Francisco), assistedby Messrs. Hermon and Burwell, civil engineers, of R. H. Sperling, chief engineer of the British Columbia ElectricRailway Co., supervised the work on behalf of his company. The track mileage of the British Columbia company comprises 13miles in Victoria and 35 miles in Vancouver and New interurban line is 12 miles long and an hourly service is main-tained. In Victoria 13 cars arc operated regularly and 5 extra ones putin service at 5 oclock. 2- 5- ■ y I ^^H iHH TUWEKS AT UAKNET UaAlLS vr FOLK LINE CONSTRUCTION. The Vancouver car equipment consists of about 60 passengermotor cars, 2 freight motor cars, 4 flat cars, 2 construction carsand 2 train can. The passenger cars for intcrurban service arc 48ft long over all, with 38-fl. bodies, and those for city service aresingle truck cars with 23-ft. bodies and double truck cars with The standard trucki are Brill 27 for the intcrurban, Brill 27-G for double truck city cars and Brill Ji-E for single truckcity cars. The cars used in city service have bodies of two types; thoseoperated on single track routes are semi-convertible, while thoseon double track routes have one entire side rciuovable. In summeropen cars are desirable, but some adequate protection for passen-gers in case of sudden showers, which are frequent, is necessary;also the tracks arc so close that screens are needed on the innerside. These conditions are met by making one side of the carpermanently closed an
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