. The Street railway journal . gement, as pointed out before,to advertise this service by the as-surance, in so far as possible, thatseats will be available for all pas-sengers at all hours. POWER STATIONS The original power station waslocated at Llanerch, not far fromthe eastern terminal. The entireapparatus in this station has beenreplaced, and the plant, which isknown as Station No. i, now con-tains the following: Two 400-kwWestingbouse double-current gen-erators, direct connected to two 650-hp Hamilton Corlissengines. Each of these machines will deliver either575-volt direct current or 350
. The Street railway journal . gement, as pointed out before,to advertise this service by the as-surance, in so far as possible, thatseats will be available for all pas-sengers at all hours. POWER STATIONS The original power station waslocated at Llanerch, not far fromthe eastern terminal. The entireapparatus in this station has beenreplaced, and the plant, which isknown as Station No. i, now con-tains the following: Two 400-kwWestingbouse double-current gen-erators, direct connected to two 650-hp Hamilton Corlissengines. Each of these machines will deliver either575-volt direct current or 350-volt alternating current,or each can be arranged to deliver both kinds of cur-rent simultaneously. Up to this year the western sec-tion of the line was served from a rotary sub-stationlocated at Ridley Creek, taking alternating current from the THE PHILADELPHIA 326 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 9. double-current machines at Station No. i. This current wasstepped up to 10,000 volts at the generating station, and was. INTERIOR OF A STANDARD CAR OF THE PHILADELPHIA &WEST CHESTER TRACTION COMPANY transmitted at this voltage over a high-tension line locatedalong the line of the railway. It is interesting to note that this high-tension line nevergave satisfaction, owing to the great number of trees alongthe route, and short circuits were constantly occurring, dueto the contact with trees, or caused by falling twigs orbranches. For this reason the management became con-vinced that it was impossible to operate a high-tension linewhere trees overhang the line in great numbers, owing to theinterruption to schedules due to short circuits. Accordingly, an entirely new power scheme was laid included the erection at Ridley Creek of a new direct-current station, now known as Station No. 2. The generatingapparatus at this plant consists of two 500-kw Curtis steamturbines, direct connected to General Electric direct-currentgenerators. This station supplies current to the li
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