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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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came from points along of Baltimore, Md., had the contract for the construction,and it commenced work on August 14, John A. Wil-son being superintendent of the work. The NiagaraFalls end of the line will be at the transformer houseacross the inlet canal from the central power station ofthe Niagara Falls Power Company. The canal bank is reached near the foot of Hindsstreet in the village of Tonawanda, and the line thenfollows the canal to Buffalo. The pole line meets theconduit at a point about 300 feet north of Brace street,and from this point to the power station of the BuffaloRailway Company the cables will be laid underground,the distance being about 4,200 feet. In its course thetransmission line passes through the city of NiagaraFalls, the town of Niagara, the town of Wheatfield,the village of North Tonawanda, the village of Tona-wanda and the city of Buffalo, in which last namedplace two and one-half or three miles are built. Theplaces named are located in the counties of Niagara
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SAMPLES OF LINE CONSTRUCTION—NIAGARA FALLS-BUFFALO TRANSMISSION. the Canadian Pacific. The double petticoated porcelaininsulators shown in one of the pictures came from theImperial Porcelain Works, Trenton, N. J. The elec-trical equipment of the line will be furnished by theGeneral Electric Company of Schenectady, N. Y. Thecable to be used on the pole line was furnished by theAmerican Electrical Works, of Providence, R. I., andthe cable to be used in the conduit was supplied by theSafety Insulated Wire Company of New York. The H.Bi Camp Company of Aultman. Ohio, made the vitrifiedtile laid in the conduit. William A. Brackenridge, M. Am. Soc. C. E., chiefengineer of the Cataract Construction Company, is incharge of the work of the transmission line on the partof the Niagara Falls Power Company. Its voltage willbe 10.000, the highest at which power in such largeunits has ever been transmitted. In length the transmission line is about 26 miles, andfor about 18 miles of this distance it

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