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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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utlined. In the city of Fort Wayne, this business has assumedsuch proportions that nearly one-half of the new power stationis devoted to 6o-cycle lighting equipment—the remainder to25-cycle equipment for traction purposes. The extent of thesystem is apparent from the accompanying map, Fig. 4. High-tension transmission lines parallel the railway from Fort Wayneto Lafayette—a total transmission distance of 112 miles fromthe source of supply. En route, the lines touch Wabash, Lo-gansport, Huntingdon, Peru, and numerous smaller towns, inmost of which considerable lighting business is available. Alongthis route are eleven rotary converter sub-stations ranging incapacity from 200 to 500-kw, totalling 3600-kw, or somewhat inexcess of the present station generating capacity. But as themaximum demands from these sub-stations do not superpose,owing to the distribution of cars, there results at the station anunusually uniform load for traction work. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 16.
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October 19, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 761 The site chosen parallels a small stream—St. Josephs River—from which the water supply is drawn for both feed andcondenser purposes. Owing to the contour of the country, the25 feet difference in level, between river bed and station floor,was unavoidable. A lower location would not only have intro-duced difficulties in coal trackage, but also would have en-dangered the station at periods of excessive flood, to which thestream is liable. Appendix A of this paper contains a detailed list of the prin-cipal apparatus in the station. The chief features of the stationmay be summarized as follows: (1) A two-story, rectangular brick structure with side wings for the accommodation of auxiliary apparatus, coalbunkers, machine shops and stores. (2) Generating machinery on second floor over boilers. (3) Structural foundations with concrete arch floor con- struction. (4) Independent barometric jet condenser—moderate vacuum. (5) Gravity conduit sy

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