. The Street railway journal . the top of a grade at Chieftainand contains two 200-kw, 6o-cycle, 600-volt rotaries. No. 3 is at Gypsy, 9 miles from No. i,and contains one 200-kw rotary. Station No. 4 is atClarksburg and contains two 300-kw rotaries to supplyboth the interurban and local lines. All of the substationshave 22,000-volt lightning arresters, disconnecting switches,oil switches in switch cells and oil cooled step-down trans-formers. All rotaries have a reactive coil to permit com-pounding from 575 to 625 volts. At Chieftain, Lucus and Gore the Fairmont Coal Com-pany taps the 22,000-v
. The Street railway journal . the top of a grade at Chieftainand contains two 200-kw, 6o-cycle, 600-volt rotaries. No. 3 is at Gypsy, 9 miles from No. i,and contains one 200-kw rotary. Station No. 4 is atClarksburg and contains two 300-kw rotaries to supplyboth the interurban and local lines. All of the substationshave 22,000-volt lightning arresters, disconnecting switches,oil switches in switch cells and oil cooled step-down trans-formers. All rotaries have a reactive coil to permit com-pounding from 575 to 625 volts. At Chieftain, Lucus and Gore the Fairmont Coal Com-pany taps the 22,000-volt line for supplying its coal coal company has its own substations with 275-voltrotaries and in all uses about 1200-kw, as shown by inte- miles from the power house. It is constructed of brickwith buff facing and a steel roof. The structure is 120 100 ft. wide, which gives room enough for 12 inter-urban and 20 city cars. Fire protection is secured bystandpipes and by sprinklers, furnished by Kelly & Co.,. SWITCHBOARD AND TRANSFORMER VIEW of Pittsburg. The city pressure is 90 lb. and is thereforeample for fire service without a pump. There are eighttracks, three of which have steam heated open pits of theconcrete type with checker plate devil strips. Two of thetracks are reserved for the machine shop and a third forthe paint shop. The latter is separated from the othertracks by a 19-in. brick wall provided with standard firedoors. All track entrances have Kinnear steel rollingdoors. ENGINEERING The New England Engineering Company, of Waterbury,Conn., and New York, was engineer and contractor for
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