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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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is equipped with a water-wheel,driving a 250-hp alternator. The current is transmitted a dis- tance of 8 miles to the town of Cameron, where a steam plantis located. This latter plant is equipped with a 250-hp railwaygenerator and transformers and rotary converter for the high-tension line. From Cameron a feeder line at 600 volts is car-ried to Midway, the nearest point on the High Line. The lineconsists of three 500,000-circ. mil cables. A 500,000-circ. milfeeder is also carried by a separate pole line to a point on theHigh Line, between Goldfield and Independence. The LowLine is fed by a line carried across country from Midway toAnaconda, a distance of 4900 ft. This line consists of two500,000-circ. mil cables. From the two points on the High Lineand from Anaconda on the Low Line the feeder lines arecarried along on the trolley poles to the tapping-in points. Thetwo roads are thus interconnected electrically, and from MAP OF C.S.& C.C.D.RY. ELECTRIC LINES CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT
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Street Railway Journal Midway back to Cameron there are run three 503,ooo-circ. milreturn cables, ground return not being depended upon. On the Low Line there are operated thirty-six cars a dayeach way, beginning at 6:00 a. m. and running every 30minutes until midnight. The High Line cars run on an hourlyschedule from 5:15 a. m. to 3:10 a. m., with extra cars around8 :oo a. 111. and 4 p. m., when the shifts of miners change.Twenty-four cars are operated each way during the 22 hours. As parts of both tracks are used by the steam trains of theColorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway for bothpassenger and freight service, all cars, electric as well assteam, are operated strictly under a despatching system fromthe Colorado Springs office. The despatching is done by tele-graph, with registering stations at Cripple Creek depot, Ben-nett Avenue (Cripple Creek), Victor, Portland Junction, Vin-dicator Junction and High Line Junction. Between CrippleCreek Station and Victor Junctio

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