. The street railway review . OWER HOUSE. BARN SHOWING CONDUIT. 466 (^Macd/li\mWa^li\ey^ ulate the sediment and solid matter, and the water is ledfrom them by 12-inch pipes to the nearest sewer. Only one of the three 400-horse-power Providenceengines with which the new power house is equipped isnow in use. With no load the plant was run at 450 the present load the dynamos compound up to from475 to 500 volts, and with the regular equipment of 22trains will probably run to 500. The engines are nowmaking 91 revolutions. With 100 revolutions they would was grounded and the officious ind
. The street railway review . OWER HOUSE. BARN SHOWING CONDUIT. 466 (^Macd/li\mWa^li\ey^ ulate the sediment and solid matter, and the water is ledfrom them by 12-inch pipes to the nearest sewer. Only one of the three 400-horse-power Providenceengines with which the new power house is equipped isnow in use. With no load the plant was run at 450 the present load the dynamos compound up to from475 to 500 volts, and with the regular equipment of 22trains will probably run to 500. The engines are nowmaking 91 revolutions. With 100 revolutions they would was grounded and the officious individual completed thecircuit by fooling with the other conductor bar. This isa very remote contingency. An interesting feature of the underground construc-tion is the arrangement of the underground conductorsat the switches. This mechanism is shown in the accom-panying cuts, and may be briefly described as follows :By the application of a lever on the outside of the trackthree rails are thrown, the two track rail tongues, the. SECTION THROUGH SWITCH AT SLOT SWITCH. give the regular trolley line voltage of from 500 to 550 andwhen the line is in full working order they will probablybe speeded up to this point. So far there have been no electric accidents of anysort either on the line or in the power house. On sev-eral occasions small boys have tried to have fun with theline by sticking pieces of wire and tin into the slot. The -^r^r- ifsjj- -stii,- 1 8H
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