. The Street railway journal . 30 ft. to50 ft. high. Extra heavy yellow pine cross-arms and gal-vanized iron braces are used. The transmission line is of stranded aluminum conductors,carried on Locke 40,000-volt glass insulators, with extra longparaffined oak pins and special galvanized ridge iron, whilethe feeder line is also of stranded aluminum, equivalent circ. mil and 400,000 circ. mil copper. was adopted in villages where necessary, and in these in-stances 5-16-in. galvanized stranded span-wire was used. Theseveral types of construction are illustrated in tne accompany-ing line
. The Street railway journal . 30 ft. to50 ft. high. Extra heavy yellow pine cross-arms and gal-vanized iron braces are used. The transmission line is of stranded aluminum conductors,carried on Locke 40,000-volt glass insulators, with extra longparaffined oak pins and special galvanized ridge iron, whilethe feeder line is also of stranded aluminum, equivalent circ. mil and 400,000 circ. mil copper. was adopted in villages where necessary, and in these in-stances 5-16-in. galvanized stranded span-wire was used. Theseveral types of construction are illustrated in tne accompany-ing line views. POWER HOUSE The main power house is at the foot of Main Streetin the village of Canandaigua. It is 117 ft. 8 ins. x 65 ft. 9ins. x 44 ft. extreme height, and is divided into two parts byan 18-in. party wall, the north section consisting of an engineroom, 38 ft. 7 ins. x 65 ft. 9 ins., with a wing 15 ft. 6 ins. x39 ft. 5 in., used for a transformer tower and an entrance for 94 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. BOILER ROOM the electric wires into the building, while the south part com-prises a boiler room, 42 ft. 7 ins. x 65 ft. 9 in., with a concretecoal-bin extension 21 ft. 6 ins. x 65 ft. 9 ins. The foundations of the building are all of concrete, madeof crushed stone, sand and Lehigh Portland cement, while the walls are of pressed brick laid in Lehigh Port-land cement mortar and average 18 ins. floors are of steel and concrete through-out, and the roof is of four-ply felt with tarand gravel filling, and is supported on steelroof trusses. In the engine room are two Williams verti-cal cross-compound engines, 22-in. and 32-in. stroke cylinders. One of these isshown in the accompanying cut. The nominalrating, at 150 r. p. m., with 150 lbs. initialpressure and exhausting into a pressure of2^2 lbs. (abs.), is 1050 ihp. These engineswere built by the Quincy Engine Works, ofQuincy, 111. They are direct-connected withtwo 650-kw alternators of the r
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