. The Street railway journal . ted after the manner of thea. c. cables, with 9-64-in. lead and 6-32-in. paper. In general design the three sub-stations are similarly con-structed. Sub-station No. 1, east of the station, is located onthe interurban line to Jeffersontown, 2 miles from the terminalof the road and 10 miles from the generating station. Thepossibility of future extensions caused its location so near theterminal of the line. The station contains two 200-kw rotary 268 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 6. converters, with the necessary auxiliary apparatus. Sub-sta-tion No. 2, loca
. The Street railway journal . ted after the manner of thea. c. cables, with 9-64-in. lead and 6-32-in. paper. In general design the three sub-stations are similarly con-structed. Sub-station No. 1, east of the station, is located onthe interurban line to Jeffersontown, 2 miles from the terminalof the road and 10 miles from the generating station. Thepossibility of future extensions caused its location so near theterminal of the line. The station contains two 200-kw rotary 268 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 6. converters, with the necessary auxiliary apparatus. Sub-sta-tion No. 2, located on the Third Street line, south of the citylimits, contains two 500-kw rotary converters. In addition tofeeding the Third and Seventh Street lines to Jacobs Park, asummer park, it supplies the Preston andthe Eighteenth Street extensions, whichcontinue d]/2 miles and 9 miles, respec-tively, from the city limits. The largest of the three sub-stationsis that at Twenty-Eighth and WalnutStreets, constructed to feed the lines in. 1-EEDER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OF THE LOUISVILLERAILWAY COMPANY the western portion of the city and the three parks, FontaineFerry Park, Shawnee Park and Riverview Park, located on slate, is carried on steel trusses. The conduits containing thehigh-tension cables enter through the basement, and the cablesare carried up to the high-tension oil switches provided withoverload relays, shown in Fig. 5. They then go to the threesets of oil transformer switches, type E Westing-house, hand operated, shown in the same latter are controlled by levers in the lower sec-tion of the a. c. rotary panels of the are three sets of 187-kw air-cooled transform-ers, as shown in Fig. 6. These are arranged in a rowand immediately over a closed chamber in the base-ment, into which the blowers exhaust. The blowers,of the Sturtevant type, are driven by 6-hp inductionmotors. The switchboard is madeup of twenty-three panels,two of these being for thec
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