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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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MT. RAINIER FROM FLUME Ni;.\R SPn.I.UAV—THE RESERVE SUPPLY. 1,700 ft. above sea level and the climate at this elevation is so uni-formly mild and the water flows so rapidly that no ice comes downthe river nor is formed either in the flume or reservoir. Utilization of Current. The power is used for all branches of service—light, power andrailway. It supplies the electric railway systems in Seattle andTacoma aggregating 168 miles of trolley road, the inulliplc unit. synchronous type, it is not necessary for the water power plant togenerate or transmit idle currents. • The distribution of the current to Ihc various localities and thetransformation and conversion for various uses takes place at IIsub-statious containing 26,000 kw. of transformer capacity. Six oftliesc arc designed for transforming the 55,000-volt current to lowervoltage and eight contain machinery converting to direct current forrailwav use.
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INTAKE ANIl l>AM, I.OOKINi; EAST. third rail line between Seattle and Tacoma, twn cable roads, ■micin Seattle iiikI one in Tacoma, furnishes power for nnineroiis farlories, totjellier willi the nliops r.f the Northern Pacific Ky., and llic-new plimpinK plant of the city of laconia, and supplies Ibe greaterl>onion of commercial anil residence llgliling anil street lighting inSeattle and in the towns between Seattle aiiand .\liiwieh Kivers ami .iIimuI 1,7<hi ft. above sea level, is locatedthe dam ,iud intake of the Iligel Smniil Iower Co. Here the waternecess,iry for the opeiation of its pl.iul is <liverted by a low, solidlyconstructed ilain, through a tnasoury iut,iki tn a lliuiie which is con- 608 STRI-:i£T RAILWAY KEVllIW. I Vol \I\. NV 0. structc.l on the southwest side of llic river (or a distance o( tenmiles. Ihe dam or omvcrtinR weir i- joo fi long and 5 ft.

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