. Electric railway journal . ver $11 per1000 kw-hours. Owing to this competitive system, thepower station force has been keyed up to a high state ofefficiency, and the saving per month over the figure of $11amounts to a neat sum. BATTERY SUBSTATION The company has one storage battery substation threemiles east of Plymouth. The storage battery at this stationfloats on the line, and in addition to equalizing the load, isused for operating an owl car at night on the interurbanline. The company is now, however, putting in a 12,000-volt, 60-cycle motor generator set, to be installed in a newsubstat
. Electric railway journal . ver $11 per1000 kw-hours. Owing to this competitive system, thepower station force has been keyed up to a high state ofefficiency, and the saving per month over the figure of $11amounts to a neat sum. BATTERY SUBSTATION The company has one storage battery substation threemiles east of Plymouth. The storage battery at this stationfloats on the line, and in addition to equalizing the load, isused for operating an owl car at night on the interurbanline. The company is now, however, putting in a 12,000-volt, 60-cycle motor generator set, to be installed in a newsubstation being erected at Plymouth. INTERURBAN LINES In 1904 the interurban line of the company was ex-tended from the village of Sheboygan Falls to the city ofPlymouth, giving a total length of interurban line of 16miles. At the present time the interurban line is beingextended 7 miles from Plymouth to Elkhart Lake, a famoussummer resort, which has heretofore been without theelectric railway connection, but has nevertheless from. Sheboygan Railway—Line-Repair Car 2000 to 4000 regular guests during the summer headers are run on the interurban line during therush hours. Cars are dispatched under train orders witha dispatcher at Sheboygan and duplicate orders for motor-men and conductors are issued through an Egry machine. The interurban passenger cars average about 225 car-miles each per day throughout the entire year. The freightcars average about 100 car-miles per dav. Fehruary 13, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 275 The interurban cars are equipped with four 40-hp motors,are 47 ft. long-, and weigh with equipment about 22 tonseach. They make the run from Sheboygan to Plymouth in52 minutes, including a 10-minute lay-over at SheboyganFalls. This is at the rate of 16 miles in 42 minutes, or aschedule speed of about 23 , including city city schedule the interurbans make about The 40-hp motors have stood the service verywell and run withou
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