. The Street railway journal . ainteda light buff. October, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 643 McKeesport, Pa., are used. Roebling trolley wire andNo. 0000, feeders supplied by Holmes, Booth & Hayden,are used, together with H. W. Johns overhead material,and Whitney car wheels. Two interior views of the station are given inFigs. 1 and 2. It is located at Wissahickon, close to theSchuylkill River and on the side of a steep hill. Coalis received from a siding of the Philadelphia & ReadingRailroad, and is dumped directly into a storage vault,from which it is admitted to the boiler room as requ
. The Street railway journal . ainteda light buff. October, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 643 McKeesport, Pa., are used. Roebling trolley wire andNo. 0000, feeders supplied by Holmes, Booth & Hayden,are used, together with H. W. Johns overhead material,and Whitney car wheels. Two interior views of the station are given inFigs. 1 and 2. It is located at Wissahickon, close to theSchuylkill River and on the side of a steep hill. Coalis received from a siding of the Philadelphia & ReadingRailroad, and is dumped directly into a storage vault,from which it is admitted to the boiler room as boiler room equipment consists of four 100 H. p., up-right tubular boilers supplied by the Stearns Manufactur-ing Company, of Erie, Pa., and one eighty horse power,upright tubular boiler manufactured by Henry Warden,of Germantown Junction, Philadelphia. Pea coal is used,costing delivered about $ per long ton. The engine room contains both railway generatorsand arc light dynamos, the railway equipment being. American arc light machines which have been fitted withBall armatures. The switchboard is located at the endof the station and is supplied with General Electric light-ning arresters. One steam main, seven inches in diame-ter, and covered with H. W. Johns asbestos packing, ex-tends the entire length of the room and supplies the steamto the engine equipment. Schieren belts are employed. A considerable extent of territory is supplied witharc lights from the station, including Manayunk, Rox-borough, Wissahickon, Falls, and all of East FairmountPark as far as Green Street, Philadelphia. A total of 365lights are operated from the station, and one circuit isfourteen miles in extent. The railway plant is owned and operated by the Wis-sahickon Electric Passenger Railway Company, with thefollowing officers: President, P. P. Liebert; vice-president,Isaac Wilde; secretary and treasurer, John Flanagan;superintendent, James C. Padley. The lighting plant is owned by theWissahi
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