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Identifier: streetrailwayj261905newy (find matches)
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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an. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. MONTHS. Street Ry.Journnl CURVES SHOWING TOTAL CAR-MILES BY MONTHS SINCE 1897 FOR PHILADELPHIA RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM capacity meant practically rebuilding the structure without in-terfering with its operation. The station as it now appears ispractically completed, and comprises a boiler room 54 ft. wideand 267 ft. long, and an engine room 70 ft. wide and 242 ft.long. In the boiler room the six old boilers were rebuilt, and arerated at 600 hp each. South of these four new batteries of two total area of the boiler room is 1 4,098 sq. ft., making about 1.25sq. ft. per horse-power. Between the old and new boilers a brick-lined steel stack 14 ft.in diameter and 220 ft. high has been erected. An extensionhas been built to the east to enclose the railroad siding. In the extension to the south of the engine room the installationconsists of six 1500-kw Westinghouse-Parsons steam turbines and STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 13.
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four dry-vacuum pumps. In the ex-tension to the north is a 23-in. and40-in. x 20-in. Westinghouse auto-matic compound engine driving a400-kw Westinghouse generator,two Heisler and two Scranton boilerfeed-pumps, three steam-driven ex-citer sets and a Reeves automaticengine driving a 100-kw Crocker-Wheeler generator. The total output of the engineroom is 1 1,990 kw. The area ofthe entire station is 31,358 sq. ft.,or 2.63 sq. ft. per kilowatt output.For the engine room alone there are1.42 sq. ft. per kilowatt capacity. In this connection, attention is di-rected to Table XIX. on page 511,which gives the square-foot area inrelation to boiler and engine-roomoutput for several of the Philadel-phia stations. It will be noted thatstation No. 1 0, at Second Street andWyoming Avenue, and also stationNo. 2, which includes the new tur-bine plant at Delaware Avenue (de-scribed later in this article), show re-markable figures in regard to bothengine and boiler horse-power de-veloped per square foot

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:575
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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