. The Street railway journal . e Street Rail-way Journal, Oct. 13, 1906, is being builtin Fort Wayne by the holding company,and eventually this station will supplypower to operate the line. At the presenttime power is obtained from an old gener-ating station in Fort Wayne. The onlysub-station on the line is located at Yoder,a small town 11 miles out of Fort Wayneand 14 miles distant from Bluffton. Thesingle high-tension line from the gener-ating station in Fort Wayne is carried onbeyond the Yoder sub-station to Kings-land, which is about 5 miles north ofBluffton, with the idea of eventually in
. The Street railway journal . e Street Rail-way Journal, Oct. 13, 1906, is being builtin Fort Wayne by the holding company,and eventually this station will supplypower to operate the line. At the presenttime power is obtained from an old gener-ating station in Fort Wayne. The onlysub-station on the line is located at Yoder,a small town 11 miles out of Fort Wayneand 14 miles distant from Bluffton. Thesingle high-tension line from the gener-ating station in Fort Wayne is carried onbeyond the Yoder sub-station to Kings-land, which is about 5 miles north ofBluffton, with the idea of eventually in-stalling another sub-station near thesouthern terminus. The plan upon which the sub-station is erected provides for the employment of oneman as sub-station operator, passenger and ticket rear of the low brick building is occupied entirely At the present time only one of the two 300-kw rotary con-verters for which the station was designed is installed. Allof the apparatus is installed in one room, and its arrangement. FORMERS AND SWITCHES IN THE YODER SUB-STATION may be seen by referring to an accompanying high-tension wires at 16,000 volts and 25 cycles enter therear wall of the building through Locke wall insulators, andafter passing through knife disconnecting switches drop to
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