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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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cast windows and three windows set in theMaple St. doors, in the east wall. A self-closing fire door (operatedby gravity) faced with sheet iron, protects the door between thesub-station and the old plant, which is to be sold and the room usedfor storage and as a lobby for employes. A large skylight locateddirectly over Ihc machinery room furnishes additional illumina-tion, and at night the sub-station is to hi-, lighted, when fully com-pleted, by fifteen 16-c. p. incandescent lamps arranged in three.series groups of five each. Additional lights will be available in thebasement when they are needed. The building was designed byMr E. H. Kitfield, of Boston, consulting engineer of the Boston &Worcester Street Railway Co. 1 he arrangement of the cquipmeniis shown in the accompanying drawings. The Marlboro sub-station supplies power to all cars operating inMarlboro- or its vicinity, and to cars running between Marlboro andHudson and between Marlboro and Whites Corner, the latter point
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PLAN .\NI M.\KLX^ikO =■_ 226 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XV, No. 4. being the junction of the Boston and Worcester air line electric roadwith the Marlboro and Hudson branch. It also helps the Westborosub-station and the Franiingham power station of the air line in sup-plying power to cars in the vicinity of Whites Corner, on account ofits proximity to the junction point. The distance from the Marl-boro sub-station to the main line at Whites Corner is about 3.4miles. Current is supplied to the sub-station at 13,200 volts, three-phase, over a transmission line which taps the main transmissioncircuit of the Boston ft Worcester at Whites Corner. In the nearfuture the line will be connected clear through to the Franiinghampower station separately from the present arrangement. BetweenWTiites Corner and the sub-station the line is divided into twosections. One of these consists of about 2j4 miles of three-phaseuUnninum circuit equivalent in carrying capacity to No. 2 B. & S. cop-per;

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