. The Street railway journal . FIG. -OPERATING HANDLE OF OIL SWITCH, SHOWN TORIGHT OF TRANSFORMER FENCE POSTS WIRED .\NDSHOWING COLLAR -♦-♦^ PORTABLE SUB-STATION An interesting feature of the equipment being installed bythe Los Angeles Pacific Company is a portable sub-station ing mounted on the supporting frame with the switch makes a very compact layout and one which is easyto install. In addition to the apparatus just described, thesub-station contains one MP 6/400-kw, 550/600-volt, 415r. p. m. induction motor-generator and three 150-kw, 15,-ooo/2400-voIt, single-phase transforme
. The Street railway journal . FIG. -OPERATING HANDLE OF OIL SWITCH, SHOWN TORIGHT OF TRANSFORMER FENCE POSTS WIRED .\NDSHOWING COLLAR -♦-♦^ PORTABLE SUB-STATION An interesting feature of the equipment being installed bythe Los Angeles Pacific Company is a portable sub-station ing mounted on the supporting frame with the switch makes a very compact layout and one which is easyto install. In addition to the apparatus just described, thesub-station contains one MP 6/400-kw, 550/600-volt, 415r. p. m. induction motor-generator and three 150-kw, 15,-ooo/2400-voIt, single-phase transformers. This equipmentenables the Los Angeles Pacific Company to deliver 1200amps, at 550 volts as a booster at any point along the oil switches, furnished by B. F. Kierulff, Jr., &. FIG. SWITCH FOR 22,000 VOLTS designed by C. M. Warnecke, chief electrician of the com-pany, which resemljles a freight car. It is 30 ft. long and8 ft. wide, and weighs, including apparatus, 100,000 lbs. As FIG. SET IN PORTABLE SUB-STATION Company, of Los Angeles, the Pacific Coast agents of theHartman Circuit Breaker Company, are being used through-out the system of the Los Angeles Pacific Company. ii8o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 26. NEW EQUIPMENT FOR EASTON TRANSIT COMPANY The Easton Transit Company has added eight ten-bencliopen cars built by the J. G. Brill Company, and seven cars built by the John Stephenson Company, to itsrolling stock. These cars will be operated over the localtracks in Easton. A still more important addition to theequipment of the company is a lot of six 30-ft. 8-in. Brillgrooveless post, semi-convertible cars, which will do serviceon the new Easton & South Bethlehem road, which is oneof the six operated b
Size: 2420px × 1033px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
