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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ewith pitch and gravel roof.The present capacity of thecar house is twenty-eightcars, but when extended, ascontemplated by the plans,it will be 258 ft. long X 102ft. wide and will hold com-fortably the fifty cars ulti-mately intended to be inservice. These are to bestored on tracks runningtransversely to the buildingas shown in Fig. i. Thesetracks will be served by alarge electric transfer tablerunning the entire length ofthe building and connectingwith the outside, as shown. The arrangement of themachinery in the powerhouse is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The complete engine andgenerator equipment of the engine room will comprise four250 k. w. Walker generators, one 500 h. p. and two 250h. p. Willans engines, the latter being manufactured bythe M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company. Of thisequipment, the four generators and the two 200 h. p.engines are put in place at present, the remaining large Slriel lly. Journal SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF TRACKS. Dbcsmbkr, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 749
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750 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 12. engine to be put in later, when the demands of the powerhouse make this increased power necessary. The engines and generators are directly connected, thearmatures being supported on hollow shafts with a solidshaft inside attached to suitalale couplings so that any oneof the generators may be run from either engine. Thisarrangement of shafting, which is shown in Fig. 6, wassupplied by the Arnold Electric Power Station Company,which controls the patents on this method of powertransmission. The engine room is also equipped with a7 j4 ton traveling crane. The boiler room at present, is supplied with three200 h. p. Heine boilers and space is left in the boiler roomfor three additional boilers. The boilers are equipped withRoney mechanical stokers. Coal is shoveled directly fromthe cars on a side track outside the boiler room on to an ironplatform in front of the boilers. From this platform,it maybe easily shoveled into the hoppers of the stoke

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