. The Street railway journal . LE CREEK 95-FT. PILE TRESTLE at Gresham and Eagle Creek. The wires are of No. 6 soft-drawn copper, two wires being mounted on a 6-ft. cross-armand the third on the top of the pole. Cross-arms and pole-tops are treated with Carbolineum wood-preserving glass Locke insulators of the Redland typeare employed with eucalyptus pins. There is very little light- Mr October 22, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 735 ning in this section, so no arresters are used, except in thepower houses. PRESENT POWER SUPPLYAs already mentioned, the Oregon City line
. The Street railway journal . LE CREEK 95-FT. PILE TRESTLE at Gresham and Eagle Creek. The wires are of No. 6 soft-drawn copper, two wires being mounted on a 6-ft. cross-armand the third on the top of the pole. Cross-arms and pole-tops are treated with Carbolineum wood-preserving glass Locke insulators of the Redland typeare employed with eucalyptus pins. There is very little light- Mr October 22, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 735 ning in this section, so no arresters are used, except in thepower houses. PRESENT POWER SUPPLYAs already mentioned, the Oregon City line is operated withrented power, while the Spring Water Division is run from asteam plant at Boring, which feeds rotary converter sub-sta-tions at Eagle Creek and Gresham. Another steam plant onthe companys terminal property in East Portland feeds intothe city lines of the system. This entire power supply is but atemporary one, with the exception of the two sub-stations, asthe company is building a large water-power plant on the. sists merely of the extra steam and help necessary to run twosmall engines for driving the hog and the conveying system,as the fuel is given to the company by the operators of the
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