. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—VIEW OF BOILER ROOM, DELAWARE AVENUE POWER STATION—ELECTRIC TRACTION CO., PHILADELPHIA. the HutchinsonStreets line, and the 2d and 3d Streets line are almost completed and. FIG. 7.—INTERIOR OF DELAWARE AVENUE POWER STATION-PHILADELPHIA. will be put in operation, it is hoped, by October Lombard & South Streets line and the LehighAvenue line will be the next to be put in construction is employed on the 10th and nthStreets line, and span wire construction is used two-thirdsof the companys track is now equipped. 1 A Roe
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—VIEW OF BOILER ROOM, DELAWARE AVENUE POWER STATION—ELECTRIC TRACTION CO., PHILADELPHIA. the HutchinsonStreets line, and the 2d and 3d Streets line are almost completed and. FIG. 7.—INTERIOR OF DELAWARE AVENUE POWER STATION-PHILADELPHIA. will be put in operation, it is hoped, by October Lombard & South Streets line and the LehighAvenue line will be the next to be put in construction is employed on the 10th and nthStreets line, and span wire construction is used two-thirdsof the companys track is now equipped. 1 A Roeblings Sons Company. They are lead return cable is of 1,000 000 circular mills, and isslightly insulated. The trolley wire is No. 00. Medberv insulation and that of McAllentype are used. From some testsmade on the 10th and nth Streetsline the drop of voltage on thereturn circuit was found to havea maximum of 2 per cent. As will be seen, the equip-ment of the Delaware Avenuestation is similar in many re-spects to that of the HutchinsonStreet power station of the com-pany, the chief characteristics ofwhich are Porter-Allen enginesdirect connected to General Elec-tric generators, and in th
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