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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Third Street. The power house is known locally as stationNo. 10. This station was originally intended as a temporary plant only,and practically the entire structure was a wooden frame building. The original plant, built in 1903, included a boiler room 56 ft.wide and 1 05 ft. long, with three batteries of Parker boilers, six structed a tunnel, through which the cinders were removed. Theboilers were operated by forced draft, the air being driven by a1 0-ft. Sturtevant blower through a chamber built in connectionwith the cinder tunnel. The coal handling and stoking weredone entirely by hand. The engine room was 70 ft. wide and I 05 ft. long, and in it September 23, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 513 were installed two 28-in. x 54-in. x 48-in. cross-compound boilers each were installed, each boiler having a normal rating Wetherill engines, each driving a 1 000-kw General Electric gener- of 700 hp. An extension to the north has been built to accom- ator and one 23-in. and 40-in. x 20-in. W

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