. Electrical world. Fig. 5.—Cross-Section of Lighting End Dock Street Sub-Station, Showing sub-stations, one on Dock Street close to the General ElectricWorks in Schenectady, one at Colone on the branch of the railwaythat connects Schenectady and Albany, and one at Lathams Corneron the railway between Schenectady and Troy. The Dock Streetsub-station distributes light and power in Schenectady, besides de-livering current to the railway, but the other two sub-stations carryonly railway loads. When the branch of the Schenectady railway thatconnects that city with Ballston Spa is in opera
. Electrical world. Fig. 5.—Cross-Section of Lighting End Dock Street Sub-Station, Showing sub-stations, one on Dock Street close to the General ElectricWorks in Schenectady, one at Colone on the branch of the railwaythat connects Schenectady and Albany, and one at Lathams Corneron the railway between Schenectady and Troy. The Dock Streetsub-station distributes light and power in Schenectady, besides de-livering current to the railway, but the other two sub-stations carryonly railway loads. When the branch of the Schenectady railway thatconnects that city with Ballston Spa is in operation a fourth sub-station located at the latter place will supply power to that branch. Between the power station at the General Electric Works and thenew sub-station on Dock Street there are three underground cableseach containing three 3/0 stranded copper conductors. Each of thesecables carries io,ooo-volt, 40-cycIe, three-phase current drawn fromstep-down transformers in the General Electric plant, and the cur-rent delivered by two of the cables is devoted to railway work, whilethe third sup
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