. The Street railway journal . incandescent lights, and have a shield, star or crescent onthe front dash. These ornaments are wired with a single 322 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 9. terminal, and the cars are used in regular service during theday. A charge of 25 cents is made for the ride, and the loadis limited to the seating capacity of the thirteen-bench opencars. LIGHTING DEPARTMENTIn addition to the express company the Schenectady RailwayCompany also operates the lighting and gas companies. Theinstalled load of the lighting company amounts to an equivalent The distributing syst
. The Street railway journal . incandescent lights, and have a shield, star or crescent onthe front dash. These ornaments are wired with a single 322 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 9. terminal, and the cars are used in regular service during theday. A charge of 25 cents is made for the ride, and the loadis limited to the seating capacity of the thirteen-bench opencars. LIGHTING DEPARTMENTIn addition to the express company the Schenectady RailwayCompany also operates the lighting and gas companies. Theinstalled load of the lighting company amounts to an equivalent The distributing system in the center of the city will bemainly underground, ducts being laid for this purpose and thecable now being in process of installation. The system consists of 60-cycle, single-phase, 2300-voltprimaries, with manholes and subway transformers and asystem of three-wire secondary mains. The outlying portionsof the city will be fed by means of underground cables throughthe business part, then changing to overhead feeders. The. .MAIN CAR HOUSE of about 84,000 16-cp lamps, while the meters for measuringthis current number 4556. While a great deal of the lighting-is used for stores and signs, yet over 50 per cent of the lightis used for domestic purposes. This fact and the great numberof meters installed in proportion to the population is one of thefeatures of the lighting system. The lighting company alsofurnishes the power for lighting the street lamps of the city,the series alternating-tub transformer system, with inclosedarc lamps being used. Current is obtained from Spiers Falls, system of three-wire secondaries and banded transformers isused wherever convenient, individual transformers only beingused in isolated cases. A contract has just been obtained from the city of Schenec-tady for furnishing apparatus (pumps, motors, etc.) and powerfor pumping water used for public purposes. This plant willconsist of vertical high-head turbine centrifugal pumps of acapacity of 12,000,00
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