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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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g, Knowles condenser, feed pumps, etc. The engineis direct connected to a 300-k.w. Westinghouse 10-polegenerator. The switchboard was installed by the Westing-house Company. The stacks, two in number, are 72 ins.and 06 ins. in diameter, respectively, and are 75 ft. inheight, built of steel and lined with firebrick to a heightof about 15 ft. above the roof. Coal is brought to the power house on the WesternMaryland Railroad, whose tracks are about 15 ft. abovethe boiler room floor, owing to the natural conformationof the ground. Chutes connect with bins of about 500tons capacity, and the coal falls directly from the cars intothe bins, or on to the boiler room floor, effecting consid-erable economy in handling. The water for the boilers is taken from two purifiers, orsettling wells, which have been due about 15 ft. from acreek running through the companys property. Filtrationthrough the soil frees the water from silt and vegetable im-purities. The water then is pumped from six wells into
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FIG. 4.—STRAIGHT TRACK CONSTRUCTION OVER OWN RIGHTOF WAY a 30,000-gal. wooden tank, 30 ft. above top of power house.All boiler feed pumps can be connected to a .fire system,which has four outlets in car barn and four in power house,with 2;-in. hose and nozzles. The employees have a firedrill about once a week at irregular intervals, when theyare expected to man the pipes and makes necessary ar-rangements for fighting fire. . At Owings Mill power house there is also a 50-k.w.motor Westinghouse booster, running at 800 revolutions,wound for 525 volts. The booster feeders are tapped into April, i8y8.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. i77 the mains at a point midway between Arlington Junctionand Pikesvillc (about 6^- miles from the power house), andfeeds this section, 4 miles in length. At the Belt Linepower house there has been installed a second Westing-house motor booster 125 k.w., 550 revolutions per minute,wound for 265 volts. The feeders from this booster tapinto the mains at Mount Washingt

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