. Electric railway review . white oak ties, 70-poundsteel rails in 33-foot lengths. 4 and 6 bolt splice bars, and isbonded with the Ohio Brass Companys solder bonds. Twothousand cubic yards of gravel per mile was used in ballast-ing the track supported on 9-foot tubular brackets at a height of 20 feet above the rails. The overhead work was built by C. O. Scott of Kokomo, Ind. Substations. The Van Buren substation is located 10 miles east ofMarion. The building is a 2-story brick structure 22 by 1feet. A space 55 feet Ions at the rear of the building is used April 6, 1907, ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVI
. Electric railway review . white oak ties, 70-poundsteel rails in 33-foot lengths. 4 and 6 bolt splice bars, and isbonded with the Ohio Brass Companys solder bonds. Twothousand cubic yards of gravel per mile was used in ballast-ing the track supported on 9-foot tubular brackets at a height of 20 feet above the rails. The overhead work was built by C. O. Scott of Kokomo, Ind. Substations. The Van Buren substation is located 10 miles east ofMarion. The building is a 2-story brick structure 22 by 1feet. A space 55 feet Ions at the rear of the building is used April 6, 1907, ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 465 for the substation equipment and the balance of the groundfloor is fitted up for an office and waiting room. The secondstory is used as a living room by the station attendant. Theelectrical equipment of this station consists of two 300-kilo-watt. 60-cycle, 3-phase Westinghouse rotary converters, sixinn-kilowatt. , oil-cooled transformers, and a6-panel switchboard with recording and other necessary in-. Marion Bluffton & Eastern Traction Company—Combination Car. struments. In addition to these railway units there will beinstalled for lighting purposes in Van Buren two 37Vi-kilowatt,60-cycle. transformers, and a 25-light constant-current arc regulator, with two additional panels to theswitchboard, one for the arc light line and the other for com-mercial lighting. The substation at Liberty Center is built of concreteblocks. The equipment is identical with that provided forthe Van Buren station. The high-tension wires are carried are provided under each of the four tracks entering the build-ing. The superstructure of the building is of brick and theroof is of frame construction. Equipment. The car equipment consists of five passenger cars, onework car and one express car. Four of the passenger carsare of the combination single-end type and the other is of thetwo-compartment interurban type. They are 45 feet in length,weigh about 30 tons eac
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