. The Street railway journal . which were operated from Oakland station on the corner of Fifth Avenue and their own power stations. Since that time there have been Atwood Street, while the other is about midway between many extensions and improvements and some 30 miles of the other three stations. track has been changed from cable to electric traction. At The rated output of the four generator stations, not present there are in the street railway system of Pittsburgh including the batteries, is about as follows : and Allegheny, exclusive of the inclined planes, 307 miles Allegheny station 1300
. The Street railway journal . which were operated from Oakland station on the corner of Fifth Avenue and their own power stations. Since that time there have been Atwood Street, while the other is about midway between many extensions and improvements and some 30 miles of the other three stations. track has been changed from cable to electric traction. At The rated output of the four generator stations, not present there are in the street railway system of Pittsburgh including the batteries, is about as follows : and Allegheny, exclusive of the inclined planes, 307 miles Allegheny station 1300 k. w. of track, all electric, while the number of companies has Ben Venue station 2800 been reduced to nine. Of these the four most important Forty-seventh street station ... 500 are the Consolidated Traction Company, United Traction Oakland station 800 Company, Pittsburgh & Birmingham Traction Company The two battery plants have each a capacity of 500 and Pittsburgh & West End Passenger Railway Company, ampere Upon the completion of the consolidations already re-ferred to, the Consolidated Traction Company found itselfwith seven power stations of which three were electric andfour were cable, and the United Traction Company withfour electric power stations. The stations of both of thesecompanies had been built, of course, to serve the needs ofseparate sections of independent track so that after theseveral lines had become united the first problem be-came that of the proper rearrangement of the power gen-eration for the most economical operation of the respectiveroads. This preliminary statement is necessary to a properunderstanding of the subsequent steps taken by the mana-gers of the two traction companies in altering their sys-tem of power production, one of the results of which hasbeen the adoption of storage batteries as station auxiliaries. In this the Consolidated Traction Company was thepioneer, its accumulator plants having been installed dur- The type of stora
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