. Electric railway journal . Mesaba Railway—750-kw Turbo-Generators ers by way of oil switches. The transformer set is in-stalled immediately back of the switchboard that occu-pies the transverse center of the substation building,which is 24 ft. by 44 ft. in plan. The floor space oppo-site the transformer section is occupied by two 300-kwmotor-generator sets, which convert the sixty-cycle Mesaba Railway—View of Motor-Generator Sets andSwitchboard Gallery into at 750 volts. Both interior and exterior viewsof this substation are shown in the illustrations. SIGNAL SYSTEMA complete inst
. Electric railway journal . Mesaba Railway—750-kw Turbo-Generators ers by way of oil switches. The transformer set is in-stalled immediately back of the switchboard that occu-pies the transverse center of the substation building,which is 24 ft. by 44 ft. in plan. The floor space oppo-site the transformer section is occupied by two 300-kwmotor-generator sets, which convert the sixty-cycle Mesaba Railway—View of Motor-Generator Sets andSwitchboard Gallery into at 750 volts. Both interior and exterior viewsof this substation are shown in the illustrations. SIGNAL SYSTEMA complete installation of the Simmen system of rail-way signaling has been installed on this line. The dis-patcher set includes a nine-lever board, interlocked andequipped with time and location recording mechanismand record sheets such as have been described in the 72 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 2. Electric Railway Journal. Six telephone dispatcherlines are also connected into the board, and each lineis equipped with a bell of a different tone instead of theusual drop. The third-rail installations on this 35-mile line pro-vide for a block approximately 6 miles in length, with
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