. The Street railway journal . ansmission ofpower plant is that at Portland, Ore., a number of illus-trations of which we present herewith. near the middle of the river, at which an electric currentis generated and transmitted to Portland, where it is em-ployed for lighting the streets and dwellings of the city, July, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 45i and also for the operation of thatsection of the East Side StreetRailway lying between OregonCity and Milwaukee, a distance ofseven miles. For the running ofthe lighting generators, seven ver-tical Victor turbine wheels areemployed and one 5
. The Street railway journal . ansmission ofpower plant is that at Portland, Ore., a number of illus-trations of which we present herewith. near the middle of the river, at which an electric currentis generated and transmitted to Portland, where it is em-ployed for lighting the streets and dwellings of the city, July, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 45i and also for the operation of thatsection of the East Side StreetRailway lying between OregonCity and Milwaukee, a distance ofseven miles. For the running ofthe lighting generators, seven ver-tical Victor turbine wheels areemployed and one 500 h. p., hori-zontal wheel of the same type,while one 200 h. p., horizontalwheel drives the railway gener-ators. The loss, it is claimed, inthe transmission of the lightingcurrent to Portland, a distance oftwelve miles is only 10 per cent. The purchase embraces 1,600acres of valuable land in the neigh-borhood, having a river frontageof about three and a half miles,which takes in all the valuablesites of manufacturing institu-. FIG, 3.—PLAN OF DYNAMO ROOM-
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