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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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of the UnionTraction Company, the Calumet and South Chicago Citystations are the only ones in the city which are operating-condensing, though the new Northwestern station will,when completed, be run as a condensing station. The sary to use city water and to make provision for econo-mizing it in every possible way. On page 628 is shown apond located near the power station, and a system of cool-ing tables. The tables are about 12 ft. wide and 70 ft.long, and the water passes from the delivery pipes to thefeeder, when it falls upon the second table and returns to the shore of the pond, from which it is again passed to thecondenser. The pond is first filled from city water main,but the supply is reinforced by rain water collected fromthe roofs of the neighboring buildings and conducted -tothe pond. The Calumet power station is shown on page 621, andthe very interesting Metropolitan power station and en-gine room on pages 619 and 624. The Chicago City power stations are rope driven plants,
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October, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 625 using small units as compared with present practices.They have return tubular boilers, and Green-Wheelock en-gines. The Western Avenue and Hobbie Street stations of theUnion Traction Company are shown on pages 623 and 624.The former is the largest surface railway station in Chi-cago, and contains engines made by Fraser & Chalmers,the George H. Corliss Company and the PennsylvaniaIron Works, all direct connected to Siemens & Halskegenerators. The last one built, of 500-kw. size, to runin connection with the 2000-h.p. Pennsylvania Iron Works condensing vessel of sufficient capacity to take care of thesteam from 1,400 h.p. of engines. The kilowatt capacity of the principal stations is asfollows: Chicago Union Traction Company— Hobbie Street Station 3,200 kw. Western Avenue Station 8,000 kw. Chicago City Railway Company— Fifty-second Street Station 5,000 kw. Forty-ninth Street Station 5,200 kw. Twentieth Street Station 500 kw. KALEVI

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