File:The Street railway journal (1904) (14737003726).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
normal capacity, can safely be carried. Thebooster set, Fig. 33, is of the Western Electric make, and con-sists of an L-5^-7 69-kw booster generator, direct-driven by anL-4 108-hp motor. The storage battery switchboard is of the tig -FEEDER WIRE BRIDGE EXTENDINGPOWER HOUSE of the Crane manufacture. The piping is en-cased in Johns-Manville covering, having 85per cent magnesia. Fig. 30 is a plan of thefeed and fuel pumps illustrated in Fig. 31,and Fig. 32 is a piping plan of the station.ELECTRICAL DETAILS OF STATIONThe generators and the station output arecontrolled from a three-panel enamelled black-slate switchboard, shown at the left in Fig. 33.The first or storage battery panel contains a750-scale voltmeter, an astatic voltmeter forthe battery current, a 5000-scale astatic am-meter, and a 4000-amp. recording wattmeter,all Thomson instruments. Each of the twogenerator panels is equipped with a G. E. FIG. 30.-PLAN OF FEED AND FUEL PUMPS February 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 279
Text Appearing After Image:
FIG. 32.—PIPING SYSTEM OF THE MAIN POWER PLANT standard two-panel type, and adjoins the station switchboard. regular pole line, three feeders going in each direction. This The six 1,000,000-circ. mil feeder cables from the switch- feeder-wire bridge is illustrated in Fig. 35. The cables are board are carried up the east wall of the engine room and out supported on five single eight-pin cross arms, 5 ft 10 ins. long, through the north wall onto a bridge, which takes them to the which, in turn, are carried on two 2-in. x 12-in. pieces that are 280 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 8. fastened to the poles. At the end, over the track, are doublecross-arms, from which the feeders are carried to the centerpoles. ROLLING STOCK The rolling stock at present in service on the Key Route

Note About Images