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Originally posted by kanawha:
prrhorseshoecurve, your substation looks real similar to the one I built for my Korber power plant:





To get technical the output from the power plant goes into the three single phase transformers to step the voltage up to the transmission line voltage, through a set of fault interrupters, and then a set of oil circuit breakers before going out to the transmission line. The basis for the substation is the Walthers HO substation except the transformers came from a couple of K-Line transformer flat cars that I got cheap.

A couple of FYI's: Most electrical gear made prior to the 60's was painted dark gray with brown insulators. Also, the wires were generally copper therefore I painted my wires green to match oxidized copper. Sometime in the 60's the electrical equipment manufacturers started painting everything a light gray as you commonly see now. Also, copper wire gave way to aluminum and the insulators became gray.

The picture of the proposed Lionel substation is a picture of the Walthers HO substation.

Ken