. The street railway review . 1)oard made at the General Electricshops is erected and electrically and mechanically tested beforeshipment. One of the views reproduced herewith gives soine ideaof the magnitude of this department and the work now in company is planning to build a number of extensions inthe spring, including a large new office building. RENEWING STEEL RAILS. NEW NIAGARA FALLS TRANSMISSION LINE. A second transmission line between Niagara Falls and Buffanhas recently been completed by the Niagara Falls Power Co.,making it now possible to transmit 30,000 e. h. p. from the g
. The street railway review . 1)oard made at the General Electricshops is erected and electrically and mechanically tested beforeshipment. One of the views reproduced herewith gives soine ideaof the magnitude of this department and the work now in company is planning to build a number of extensions inthe spring, including a large new office building. RENEWING STEEL RAILS. NEW NIAGARA FALLS TRANSMISSION LINE. A second transmission line between Niagara Falls and Buffanhas recently been completed by the Niagara Falls Power Co.,making it now possible to transmit 30,000 e. h. p. from the gencrating station at the Falls to the city of Buffalo. The old line was designed and erected by the J. G. White New York, and consists of six copper cables, or two three-phasecircuits, each cable having 19 strands. The poles are about 75ft. apart, and the cables are supported on heavy white insulatorsmade by the Imperial Porcelain Co., of Trenton, N. J. In theerection of the line many new engineering problems had to b:. NIAGARA 1 ALUS TRANSMISSION , Old. Aluminum, New. faced, but the obstacles were all overcome and the service hi?been satisfactory to the fullest degree. The new cables, three in number, are of aluminum, each con-sisting of 37 strands and having 300,000 c. m. cross section. Th;poles used average 35 ft. in length, and as the alumimim is muchlighter than the copper cables, the poles on the new line have beer,placed 11214 ft. apart on the average. The insulators are redlishbrown and were made by C. S. Knowles, of Boston. The Pitts-burg Reduction Co. furnished the aluminum cables. In erecting the new line, the route of the old right of way h isbeen followed to the south boundary of the village of at the point where the old transmission line crosses the NewYork Central tracks, the new line diverges and reaches the ter-minal station over a shorter route. CONNETTE INSPECTS NEW ORLEANS ROAD. Mr. E. G. Connette, general manager of the Syra
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