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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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t of two 650,000 cm. rubber-covered cables inparallel, for positive, negative and equalizer. These cablesare supported by special porcelain insulators to the Ibeams forming the ceiling of the 10-ft. basement and thefloor of the engine room. The switchboard itself rests on large wooden blocks,which are carried on 10-in. I beams, which in turn rest on veyor or elevator consisting of an endless chain of buckets,driven by an old Sprague No. 6 motor, which has beenchanged over to shunt winding. These buckets can befilled at any point along the bin, and raise the coal to aheight where it can be shot down into the hoppers abovethe Murphy stoker with which each boiler is equipped.The ashes are discharged from the boilers into hopperslocated in the basement, and are taken out by a small car JUNIATA ST. POWER STATIONI 10 11 12 1 2 JULY 2tST, 1898.7 8 9 10 11 12 S 1000 6 1 § 2 CAPA Ct PA CIT y cu RV —i I -f- r —1 1 1 ni it PU T 1 1 1 Ol T- rC JFK E 1 1 ! 1 Street liailtvay Journal,It. Y,, V
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FORM FOR KEEPING STATION RECORDS INTERIOR PAYMASTERS CAR brick piers built up from the basement floor. The latter isof concrete. The boiler room contains four Stirling batteries of 400h.p. each, and one battery of Babcock-Wilcox boilers. Aspecial stack is provided for each battery, and each boiler isequipped with Murphy stokers. The freight cars carrying the coal are run on a trestleinto the boiler room, and discharge their loads into a largeiron bin of thirty carloads capacity, in front of the boilers.In front of this bin is a track, on which runs a coal con- drawn by a cable operated by an electric motor situatedjust outside of the boiler room proper. A National feedwater heater completes the equipment of the boiler room. For feed water the company is using the overflow fromthe condensers, and although there is naturally a slightadmixture in it of oil from the cylinders, no trouble hasbeen experienced with scales in the boiler tubes. The ad-vantage of using this overflow is, of cour

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