. Factory and industrial management. n account of the shortness of the summer season, no sum-mer cars are used, but the windows of the closed cars are wide and business of this road has been very large and in order to handlethe summer travel it is probable that some of the rolling stock will beequipped with multiple train-control apparatus so that two-car trainsmay be operated. The power house is located at Hancock, where coalmay be received at the companys dock. The power-house equipmentconsists of a Westinghouse 500 kilowatt, railway generator, a 500-kilo-watt, 25-cycle alternator, a
. Factory and industrial management. n account of the shortness of the summer season, no sum-mer cars are used, but the windows of the closed cars are wide and business of this road has been very large and in order to handlethe summer travel it is probable that some of the rolling stock will beequipped with multiple train-control apparatus so that two-car trainsmay be operated. The power house is located at Hancock, where coalmay be received at the companys dock. The power-house equipmentconsists of a Westinghouse 500 kilowatt, railway generator, a 500-kilo-watt, 25-cycle alternator, and a 250-kilowatt rotary converter with twoother converters of the same size at sub-stations. In the state of Michigan there are twenty-four interurban linesactually in operation and franchises have been asked for forty-sevenmore. The great activity in building electric roads in this territory isdue, perhaps more than to anything else, to the fact that it was herethat a number of the earliest and most successful roads in the country. TWO 250-KlLO\VATT THREE-PHASE WESTINGHOUSE ROTARY CONVERTERS ; SHOWINGALSO FOUR OF THE SIX OIL-COOLED RAISING TRANSFORMERS AND DIRECT-CURRENT SWITCHBOARD. HOUGHTON CO. STREET RY. CO.,HANCOCK, MICH. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS. 879
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