. The Street railway journal . one belt running over the other, toan old mill engine purchased by the company for this tem-porary service. As stated above, this temporary plant isnow only used as an auxiliary to the new plant during thepeak of the load. The two plants are not run in parallel,but each supplies separate districts. The feeder system isdivided into four sections, so that those nearer the powerstation, on the main line and the Bristol branch, may be 256 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 9. run on the 550-volt generators during the periods of heavyload. The power station is hel
. The Street railway journal . one belt running over the other, toan old mill engine purchased by the company for this tem-porary service. As stated above, this temporary plant isnow only used as an auxiliary to the new plant during thepeak of the load. The two plants are not run in parallel,but each supplies separate districts. The feeder system isdivided into four sections, so that those nearer the powerstation, on the main line and the Bristol branch, may be 256 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 9. run on the 550-volt generators during the periods of heavyload. The power station is helped out at this time also bytwo storage batteries, one placed at each end of the batteries are of 800-ampere-hours capacity each, andconsist of 250 G-11 cells made by the Electric Storage Bat-tery Company, of Philadelphia. One is at East Provi-dence, and the other at Brayton, near Fall River. CAR HOUSE The car house is located in Warren, near the power sta-tion, and is likewise constructed of brick. There are seven. STANDARD COMBINATION BAGGAGE CAR tracks running into the car house, the eastern portion ofwhich is partitioned off and used as a repair shop. Theshop is provided with a transfer table made by the Taun-ton Locomotive Works, of Taunton, Mass., and with thenecessary equipment for making ordinary repairs on thetrucks, motors, controllers, etc., of the rolling are suspended from the ceiling by means of whicheither end of the cars can be jacked up and the trucksrolled from under; and a pneumatic hoist is provided forhandling heavy parts. CARS The rolling stock of this branch of the road consists, in
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