. The Street railway journal . CONSTRUCTING THE OVERHEAD LINE WITH OLD CAR main building, is a brick building containing the step-upstatic transformers. Current is supplied to them at 2200volts, 2-phase, and is raised to 10,000 volts, 3-phase, fortransmission. There are installedfour 375-kw and four 150-kw oil-cooled transformers for this pur-pose, furnished by the Westing-house Electric & Manufacturing-Company. The current is trans-mitted by two three-wire circuits,of No. 4 copper, to the static trans-formers at the rotary protection from lightningis afforded by Westinghous
. The Street railway journal . CONSTRUCTING THE OVERHEAD LINE WITH OLD CAR main building, is a brick building containing the step-upstatic transformers. Current is supplied to them at 2200volts, 2-phase, and is raised to 10,000 volts, 3-phase, fortransmission. There are installedfour 375-kw and four 150-kw oil-cooled transformers for this pur-pose, furnished by the Westing-house Electric & Manufacturing-Company. The current is trans-mitted by two three-wire circuits,of No. 4 copper, to the static trans-formers at the rotary protection from lightningis afforded by Westinghouse low-equivalent lightning arresters. Thetwo transmission circuits are soarranged that they may be oper-ated independently or in parallel,as the conditions demand. OBTAINING FILLING FOR GRADING THE ROAD SUB-STATIONS hours. The fuel used is, in general, bituminous slack. Allthe units are operated in parallel, in times of heavy load,to carry the lighting, power and railway business, and thistogether with the introduction of
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