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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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ugh it is believed this precaution is virtually nota necessity, it was decided to install the accumulators so as tomake it entirely impossible for damage to occur through short-age of water in the step bearings, which would permit the shaftto drop down to the bearing surface. The switchboard at this station is of rather unusual design.All high-tension switches and appliances are controlled elec-trically by low-voltage auxiliary circuits manipulated from abench board placed in front of the low-tension upright panels, for the station are banked in a separate gallery over the switch-board proper. BOILER ROOM Steam is generated in ten 750-hp water-tube boilers, ar-ranged in two lines facing each other, with a wide aisle be-tween. Eight of the boilers were furnished by Aultman &Taylor and two by Babcock & Wilcox. The boiler room floor is 14 ft. above grade, this arrangementgiving a sub-cellar, which is utilized in part for ash tracks, the I026 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No.
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SINGLE TURBINE UNIT June io, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. ashes being allowed to drop from in front of the boilersdirectly into carts which run over a narrow gage track,and the shes are used for filling in the property aroundthe power station. The arrangement is such that each pair of oppositeboilers constitutes a boiler unit. Each battery is providedwith an engine-driven blower for forced draft. The blower.system was furnished by B. F. Sturtevant Company. Theeight Aultman & Taylor boilers are equipped with Jonesunder-feed stokers. Under normal conditions the turl)inesare operated with superheated steam, all of the boilersheing fitted with internal superheaters, the Aultman &Taylor batteries having Foster superheaters and the Bab-cock & Wilcox having superheaters of the Babcock & Wil-cox type. The arrangement is sucli that the degree ofsuperheat in cacli unit can be regulated to a nicety, andthe station can he operated, if desired, with part of theboilers giving supe

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