. The Street railway journal . alls Chemi-cal Company, to the Niagara Falls & Buffalo Railway, aline of electric cars running between the two cities, andother lines in Niagara. Another wheel pit of .similar depthto that already in , is being excavated as a continua-tion. It will be three times as long, i. e., 430 ft. X 20 will contain, when equipped, seven additional tur-bines with penstocks and turbine shafts. Seven additional5000 li. p. generators will be operated by these turbines,and the complete plant will have a total output at full loadof 50,000 h. p. The success of the trans
. The Street railway journal . alls Chemi-cal Company, to the Niagara Falls & Buffalo Railway, aline of electric cars running between the two cities, andother lines in Niagara. Another wheel pit of .similar depthto that already in , is being excavated as a continua-tion. It will be three times as long, i. e., 430 ft. X 20 will contain, when equipped, seven additional tur-bines with penstocks and turbine shafts. Seven additional5000 li. p. generators will be operated by these turbines,and the complete plant will have a total output at full loadof 50,000 h. p. The success of the transmission, so far as the opera-tion of the cars is concerned, was demonstrated on , when the transmitted current was turned into theMain Street feeders of the Buffalo Railway Company. The successful of the power of the Fallsto Buffalo, is to be made the occasion of a great celebra-tion to be held both at Niagara and Buffalo on Dec. 15. Lamps as Danger Signals. The Denver Tramway Company has introduced the. FIG. 6.—VIEW OF TRANSMISSION LINE, practice of installing red lights at the approaches to steamrailroad grade crossings and at other dangerous placesalong the line. In this way there is no danger of a motor-man at night approaching a dangerous place at a too highrate of speed. At the crossings the daiiger signals aresupplemented by the usual derailing switch devices. The city corporation of Sheffield, England, has takenover the tramway service from the local company, and hascommenced the operation of cars under municipal control. 776 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 12. The Electrically Welded Continuous Rail. By Richard Eyre. Tlie*day has passed for elaborate argument in favorof the theoretical advantages of the continuous rail forstreet railroad practice. So, also, has the day in whichthe drawbacks from expansion and contraction were con-sidered impossible to overcome. The progressive man-ager now knows that a continuous track need not be aletter S
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