. Electric railway review . pin imme-diately on the top of the pole and shown in an accompanyingengraving is used with a 6-foot crossarm below. The powertransmission line runs to the power house of the SyracuseLake Shore & Northern at Nine-Mile creek, about 4% milesfrom Syracuse, where the current is at present stepped downto 402 volts and a 500-kilowatt rotary converter used to fur-nish the necessary direct current for present operation. Thecompany also has here its two engine-driven generators, used 176 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 6. heretofore as reserve for emergency. The new equ
. Electric railway review . pin imme-diately on the top of the pole and shown in an accompanyingengraving is used with a 6-foot crossarm below. The powertransmission line runs to the power house of the SyracuseLake Shore & Northern at Nine-Mile creek, about 4% milesfrom Syracuse, where the current is at present stepped downto 402 volts and a 500-kilowatt rotary converter used to fur-nish the necessary direct current for present operation. Thecompany also has here its two engine-driven generators, used 176 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 6. heretofore as reserve for emergency. The new equipmentwas all furnished by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufac-turing Company. The switchboard equipment includes inte-grating and recording wattmeter automatic synchronizer andall the essential apparatus for the operation of the powerequipment. Roadbed. The double-track roadbed is at present on cinder fill,cinders being obtained in large quantities from the SolvayProcess Company. When these become thoroughly packed. Syracuse Lake Shore & Northern Railroad—Cradle Construc-tion for Protection of Steam Railroad Crossingand Power Transmission Line. they afford a good subconstruction for crushed rock rails are 70-pound sections. They are bonded with Chase-Shawmut soldered bonds. CAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN LAYING OFF BOILERSAND BOILER CLEANING. In view of the accidents which are reported from time totime due to the bad methods adopted in preparing to cleanboilers, and in the actual work of carrying out such operations,it may be worth while to give a few general hints as to theway in which to treat a boiler when it is proposed to lay it offfor any time. The general conception as to how to treat aboiler when it is to be laid off for any length of time is toempty all or part of the water, and to leave the boiler standingwith the fire-doors in any position in which they may happento be placed at the time. It does not matter to the intelli-gences of those in charge of such
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