. The Street railway journal . at one pointabout 6000 ft. of developed line was required in crossinga deep valley. The cost of the line was kept down to areasonable figure and long tangents with easy curves andonly occasional maximum gradient were developed in theunfavorable country covered. The methods employed werei-imilar to the best steam railway location and the resultscompared favorably with the existing steam roads operat-ing in that territory. Other projected electric roads woulddo well to adopt similar methods. — The Compania del Ferrocarril de Sarria, at Barcelona,Spain, has applied
. The Street railway journal . at one pointabout 6000 ft. of developed line was required in crossinga deep valley. The cost of the line was kept down to areasonable figure and long tangents with easy curves andonly occasional maximum gradient were developed in theunfavorable country covered. The methods employed werei-imilar to the best steam railway location and the resultscompared favorably with the existing steam roads operat-ing in that territory. Other projected electric roads woulddo well to adopt similar methods. — The Compania del Ferrocarril de Sarria, at Barcelona,Spain, has applied for a concession for an electric tramwayin Barcelona. May 9, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 783 POWER STATION FOR DELAWARE & HUDSON COMPANY A steam turbine power station embodying a number ofinteresting- features has just been completed at Mechanics-ville, N. Y., for the Delaware & Hudson Company. J. & Company, of New York, designed the plant andcarried out the construction under the general direction of. ators of 2000-kw capacity and two of 3000-kw capacityeach. At present two 2000-kw units are installed. The foundations for all the colunms, turbines and theintake and discharge tunnels are placed on rock ; all foun-dations and column footings are of concrete. The super-structure consists of a self-supporting steel skeleton frame,the walls of which are of brick, laid in lime and cement mortar. The twostacks are of the Cus-todis type, 100 ft. inheight al)ove theirfoundations by 9 ft. in-ternal diameter. r h e coal-handlingand storage arrange-ments for this plant areunusually comjjrehen-sive and interesting. Itis the intention of theDelaware & HudsonCompany, during theearly spring and sum-mer months, w h e nthere is less demandfor their coal-haulingequipment than at otherseasons, to accumulatecoal in the storage yard adjacent to the plant. The coal-handling apparatus therefore has been designed with theidea of storing coal during these months in sufficient quan-tity to
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