. The street railway review . an independent 7x10 enginerunning at 270 strokes per minute. The engines are compound condensing, the high pres-sure cylinders being 12x20 inches, and the low , and when all are in operation, give the room anappearance of intense actixitA. and present a \er\ atlrac-ti\e picture. The generators are each furnished with a line ampere meter and an atitomatic circuit breaker. All the electrical power required to operate the cars ofthis company in the three cities is sup]ilied from this one. ELEVATED PLATFORM IN CAR HOUSE—DAVENPORT it ROCK ISLAN
. The street railway review . an independent 7x10 enginerunning at 270 strokes per minute. The engines are compound condensing, the high pres-sure cylinders being 12x20 inches, and the low , and when all are in operation, give the room anappearance of intense actixitA. and present a \er\ atlrac-ti\e picture. The generators are each furnished with a line ampere meter and an atitomatic circuit breaker. All the electrical power required to operate the cars ofthis company in the three cities is sup]ilied from this one. ELEVATED PLATFORM IN CAR HOUSE—DAVENPORT it ROCK ISLAND KY. central power station, the current being conducted on fivemain circuits. The one to Davenport crosses the bridge,but it is not made to feed until it reaches the Iowa it has branch feed wires like the fingers of a feed wire which supplies Moline is also carried intactand not tapped along the route. Each feed wire has itsswitch and ampere meter. The main switch board is a handsome study in oak andbrass, 14 feet high and 25 feet long. The feeder switchboard is the same height, but onl\- 10 feel lonjr. Each of the five circuits is fed independent of all the others, sothat any disarrangement to one line has no effect uponany of the others. Okonite wire of three-quarter inclidiameter carries the current from the machines to theswitch board, and braided Okonite is used for the back ofthe board. CONSOLIDATION. The street railway systems of the three cities had been inoperation a number of years, but had not made
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