. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—INTERIOR OF POWER STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION CO. ON MARKET STREET, SHOWING ENGINES IN PLACE. nected from the walls of the building, insuring entirefreedom from vibration. The feeders for all the Philadelphia lines within thecity are underground. The cables adopted by the Phila-delphia Traction Company were manufactured by theStandard Underground Cable Company, of Pittsburgh,and are placed in conduits principally of the Nationaltype manufactured by the National Conduit Manufactur-ing Company, of New York. Views of the cars have been published in prev
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—INTERIOR OF POWER STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION CO. ON MARKET STREET, SHOWING ENGINES IN PLACE. nected from the walls of the building, insuring entirefreedom from vibration. The feeders for all the Philadelphia lines within thecity are underground. The cables adopted by the Phila-delphia Traction Company were manufactured by theStandard Underground Cable Company, of Pittsburgh,and are placed in conduits principally of the Nationaltype manufactured by the National Conduit Manufactur-ing Company, of New York. Views of the cars have been published in previousissues. The engineers of the Philadelphia Traction Com-pany are: Electrical engineer, F. Uhlenhardt, Jr.; mechani-cal engineer, J. E. Grist. THE ELECTRIC TRACTION COMPANY. The Electric Traction Company, of Philadelphia,which includes the Lombard & South Streets PassengerRailway, Frankford & Southwark City Passenger Rail-way and leased lines, put its first line, the 10th and nthStreets line into operation the latt
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