. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—GENERATORS- -13TH STREET STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION for all lines except the Twelfth & Sixteenth, Thirteenth &Fifteenth, Morris & Tasker and Grays Ferry lines andthe Long Lane extension. The greater part of the work on. tricts, where the underground feeders are not used, anordinary supplementary wire is employed. The contractors for the outside electrical construction these lines was performed by Stern & Silverman, of Phila-delphia, some of the work being done by the Field En-gineering Company of New York. The mileage built by 6 THE
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—GENERATORS- -13TH STREET STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION for all lines except the Twelfth & Sixteenth, Thirteenth &Fifteenth, Morris & Tasker and Grays Ferry lines andthe Long Lane extension. The greater part of the work on. tricts, where the underground feeders are not used, anordinary supplementary wire is employed. The contractors for the outside electrical construction these lines was performed by Stern & Silverman, of Phila-delphia, some of the work being done by the Field En-gineering Company of New York. The mileage built by 6 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. i. Pepper & Register has been, up to date, about fifty miles,including the location and setting of about 4,000 poles,leaving nearly 100 miles yet to construct. Fig. 8 gives a view of the feeder vaults at the 13thStreet and Mount Vernon Avenue Station. All conduitslead to this vault which is fourteen feet high and quitecommodious, occupying an L under the corner of thebuilding at 13th Street and Mount VernonAvenue. Junction boxes are placed in thesevaults at the terminus of each conduit, and fromthese the cables are led directly to the switch-board. Track.—The track construction adopted bythe Traction Company is most substanti
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