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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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ne in the old plantwhich has been connected to the new piping system andcan be used in emergency cases. In the lighting department there are at present fourArmington and Sims cross-compound condensing en-gines, with cylinders 16-J ins. and 25 ins. x 15 ins. stroke,belted to the lighting apparatus, which consists of threearc machines of 125 lights capacity each, two no-voltdirect current dynamos of about 500 lights capacity each,two alternators with a capacity of about 7000 lights and a200-k.w. 500-volt power generator. Each engine exhaustsinto an independent driven jet condenser of the M. T.Davidson type. These condensers are placed in thebasement but have the valve stems of the regulating valvesextended above the main floor at a point which enablesthe engineer to manipulate them without leaving the throt-tle of the engine. The belts are all of double dynamo belting and are 14ins. wide. The switchboard is of black enameled slate. Itis mounted upon a balcony overlooking the engine room
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FIG. 2.—PlAN OF STATION, AKRON 526 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 9. and is provided with the highest grade of instruments andeverything necessary to successful operation. Water for the condensing and boiler feed purposes isobtained from the mill race which flows through the prop-erty, but as this water is very filthy, owing to its havingpassed through a great many manufacturing plants, suchas machine shops, cabinet shops, flouring mills, varnishworks, etc., it was necessary to provide a system of purifi-cation. An intake crib was constructed which removed apart of the mineral sediment and all the floating oil; fromthis crib the water is admitted to a settling reservoir con-structed of brick. The reservoir is divided into two com-partments and is so connected to the intake crib and thesupply main to the building that either compartment canbe cut off to admit of cleaning. The water is taken fromthis settling reservoir into the building through an 18-in.cast iron main, and aft

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