[Illustration:  INSIDE WALL OF TUNNEL SHOWING 64 DUCTS]

Provision is made for an ultimate total of twelve sub-stations, to each of which as many as eight feeders may be installed if the development of the company’s business should require that number.  But eight sub-stations are required at present, and to some of these not more than three feeders each are necessary.  The aggregate number of feeders installed for the initial operation of the subway system is thirty-four.

Each feeder circuit is provided with a type H-oil switch arranged to be open and closed at will by the operator, and also to open automatically in the case of abnormal flow of current through the feeder.  The feeders are arranged in groups, each group being supplied from a set of auxiliary bus bars, which in turn receives its supply from one or the other of the two sets of main bus bars; means for selection being provided as in the case of the alternator circuits by a pair of selector switches, in this case designated as group switches.  The diagram on page 93 illustrates the essential features of the organization and connections of the 11,000 volt circuits in the power house.

[Illustration:  MANHOLES IN SIDE WALL OF SUBWAY]

Any and every switch can be opened or closed at will by the operator standing at the control board described.  The alternator switches are provided also with automatic overload and reversed current relays, and the feeder switches, as above mentioned, are provided with automatic overload relays.  These overload relays have a time attachment which can be set to open the switch at the expiration of a predetermined time ranging from .3 of a second to 5 seconds.

[Illustration:  CONVERTER FLOOR PLAN SUB-STATION NO. 14]

The type H-oil switch is operated by an electric motor through the intervention of a mechanism comprising powerful springs which open and close the switch with great speed.  This switch when opened introduces in each of the three sides of the circuit two breaks which are in series with each other.  Each side of the circuit is separated from the others by its location in an enclosed compartment, the walls of which are brick and soapstone.  The general construction of the switch is illustrated by the photograph on page 94.

[Illustration:  CROSS SECTION SUB-STATION NO. 14]

[Illustration:  INTERIOR OF SUB-STATION NO. 11]

[Illustration:  LONGITUDINAL SECTION SUB-STATION NO. 14]

Like all current-carrying parts of the switches, the bus bars are enclosed in separate compartments.  These are constructed of brick, small doors for inspection and maintenance being provided opposite all points where the bus bars are supported upon insulators.  The photographs on pages 95 and 96 are views of a part of the bus bar and switch compartments.

[Illustration:  TWO GROUPS OF TRANSFORMERS]