. The street railway review . to locale discon-necting switches, lightning arresters, etc, at each point where thehigh tension wires enter or leave Ihc ground. The general ar-rangement of these houses will be understood from the drawings. 966 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII, No. 12. All iiiulcrgrouiid cables were furnished by Ihe Standard Under-gruuiul Cable Co. and are carried in II. B. Camp single 3/j-in. vitri-fied clay conduits. At each terminal house the cables leave theconduits and are brought up along the inside wall of the house inconduits to cable bells at which point each cable cir
. The street railway review . to locale discon-necting switches, lightning arresters, etc, at each point where thehigh tension wires enter or leave Ihc ground. The general ar-rangement of these houses will be understood from the drawings. 966 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII, No. 12. All iiiulcrgrouiid cables were furnished by Ihe Standard Under-gruuiul Cable Co. and are carried in II. B. Camp single 3/j-in. vitri-fied clay conduits. At each terminal house the cables leave theconduits and are brought up along the inside wall of the house inconduits to cable bells at which point each cable circuit is dividedinto a duplicate system so that if one cable is out of order the other building a concrete retaining wall at approximately the line of meanlow water level and utilizing the ash from the power house for filling material. nie new turbine station is a combined steel and brick building 160ft. long X 121 ft. wide. The general arrangement of the variousbays will be at once evident from the drawings accompanying this. SECTION ON A. A., BROCKTON SITB-STATION. one will carry the current anil prevent a complete shut-down. Afterpassing through switches, the duplicate cables again unite into onecircuit and the lines pass from a special anchorage insulator on theoutside of the wall direct to the high tension pole line. The hightension pole is located entirely on a private right of way 50ft. wide upon which the company has purchased the right totrim and clear as much as may be necessary to thoroughly protectthe line. article. All of the foundations of the building, including the foun-dations for the turbine units, are of concrete mixed in the proportionof one part portland cement, two parts sand and 5 parts brokenstone. This concrete was put in during the summer with freshwater mixture. The station is laid out for five p. turbo-generator units, only four of which, however, will be installedimmediately. As pointed out in the description of the Newport turbine station ^
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