. The Street railway journal . FIG. 19.—INTERIOR VIEW OF BORING STATION, SHOWINGDOUBLE CORLISS ENGINE WITH 20-FT. BELTED FLY-WHEEL transformers, all of the Stanley manufacture. At the EagleCreek station water is scarce, so the transformers have beenset in concrete pots, from which the water is drained into awell and used over again. The attendant at each of the sub-stations, besides doing the operating, attends to the depot andhandles tickets and freight. After the power is available from the Cazadero plant the. FIG. 25.—THE COMPANYS LODGE ON THE CLACKAMAS RIVERAT CAZADERO system will be opera
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 19.—INTERIOR VIEW OF BORING STATION, SHOWINGDOUBLE CORLISS ENGINE WITH 20-FT. BELTED FLY-WHEEL transformers, all of the Stanley manufacture. At the EagleCreek station water is scarce, so the transformers have beenset in concrete pots, from which the water is drained into awell and used over again. The attendant at each of the sub-stations, besides doing the operating, attends to the depot andhandles tickets and freight. After the power is available from the Cazadero plant the. FIG. 25.—THE COMPANYS LODGE ON THE CLACKAMAS RIVERAT CAZADERO system will be operated entirely from six sub-stations. Two ofthese will be the present stations at Gresham and Eagle Creek,the third will be the Boring plant, while new stations will beerected at the terminal yard in East Portland, at Sellwood andat a point on the Oregon City line near Oak Grove, as indi-cated in Fig. 1. The standard equipment for these sub-stationswill be rotary-converter units of 400 kw each, and as manysuch units will be installed at the different points as will all be fed from a 11,000-volt transmission line carried October 22, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 737 along the right of way on the trolley poles. A portable sub-station consisting of a rotary mounted on a car will also beequipped for use whenever and wherever necessary. CLACKAMAS RIVER POWER PLANTThe water-power development on the Clackamas River,which is now being energetically prosecuted, will have an ulti-mate capacity of 25,0
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