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Identifier: electricrailway521918newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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No. 3 copper wire installed, right-of-way, etc $14,000 Total of above $45,300 Half of engineering and miscellaneous expense chargeable to complete development $3,000 Total chargeable to Oakland $48,300 Total chargeable to Harmony 21,600 Expended for temporary manually operated station at Oakland . 3,900 Expended for temporary manual operation at Harmony. . 300 Total expenditure $74,100 Net expenditure (estimated maximum) $29,600 Net expenditure (estimated minimum) 23,600 are of concrete and the walls of red brick with stonetrimmings. All high-voltage equipment is confinedto one room, which is separated from the other roomby a middle wall with sliding firedoors. The floor ofthe room in which the transformers are located issloped toward the front door of the building wherethere is a narrow rectangular basin covered with grat-ing and provided with a drain leading to a dry well out-side of the building. In case of accident to a trans-former, resulting in the expulsion of burning oil, the
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1044 Electric Railway Journal oil will quickly drain away from the room. It is im-possible for the oil to find its way into the rotary con-verter room, a condition which would, if it occurred,cause a spread of the damage. The windows are largeand are fitted with opaque wired glass which gives adesirable but ample diffused lighting of all of the equip-ment within the building. Both buildings, which are identical in construction,were designed and built under the supervision of H. W.Sanborn, chief engineer of the company. Equipment in Oakland Substation The Oakland substation is at present operating fromenergy transmitted over a 13,200-volt transmission line.The equipment is, however, designed to allow the station

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