. The Street railway journal . ent of 3000 kw, containing one looo-kw rotary and four500-kw rotaries. This station is a very important one, althoughit serves a territory upon which only the summer traffic isheavy. It has been the custom to help out this part of the roadby means of a portable storage battery, contained on old ele- ment, have been ordered, and the station is expected to berunning before next winter. A temporary sub-station has recently been constructed nearthe site of the permanent Bridge sub-station. It consists of awooden building about 30 ft. x 50 ft. The walls are covered on
. The Street railway journal . ent of 3000 kw, containing one looo-kw rotary and four500-kw rotaries. This station is a very important one, althoughit serves a territory upon which only the summer traffic isheavy. It has been the custom to help out this part of the roadby means of a portable storage battery, contained on old ele- ment, have been ordered, and the station is expected to berunning before next winter. A temporary sub-station has recently been constructed nearthe site of the permanent Bridge sub-station. It consists of awooden building about 30 ft. x 50 ft. The walls are covered onthe inside with asbestos board and the roof is of tin. This sub-station has been built during the last few weeks, and will re-ceive high-tension current from the Edison Illuminating Com-pany, which until recently was not available. The railway hasbeen buying all the power it could get from the lighting com-pany for many months, and this temporary sub-station will beused to handle any that may be set at liberty by the operation. vated cars, which could be moved from one part of the systemto another, being used at East New York during the winterand at Coney Island during the summer. These cells havenow been permanently placed at the Essex sub-station, as thecompletion of the Coney Island rotary sub-station has givensufficient current supply to this section of the system. It is theintention of the company to move a part of these rotaries toother sub-stations during the winter months to take care of thecar-heater load. This will keep the equipment in use through-out the year and relieve the road from paying fixed charges onidle machines. Nothing has been said in the above of the 6ooo-kw sub-station to be erected near the Brooklyn terminal of the Brook-lyn Bridge, and to be known as the Bridge sub-station. Theconduits for the high-tension feeders leading to the stationhave already been laid, four looo-kw rotaries, the initial equip- of the new power station, or such additional as ca
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