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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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rs, two lightparcel vans (trailers) and one motor cattle car truck. NEW PLANT AND EXTENSIONS The chief additions to the generating plant have been made atthe Laxey power station, where there have recently been in-stalled two boilers, two direct coupled high-tension generatingsets, two feed pumps, a surface condensing plant, one rotaryconverter, with two transformers for reducing the pressure,and the requisite switch gear for the new plant. Fig 2 showsthe general arrangement of the present power station. The boilers are of the Climax type, supplied by B. R. Row-land & Company, this style of boiler being chosen chiefly onaccount of the small amount of floor space available, and thevery simple design of the flues and chimney required for them.It was necessary to raise the roof of the boiler house in orderto accommodate them, but this was a simpler matter than ex-tending in any other direction. The boilers have a rated capa-city of evaporating 12,000 lbs. of water per hour from and at
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FIG. 19.—MOTOR CAR FOR MANX ELECTRIC RAILWAY 212 degs. F. in temperature. The heating surface of each is3010 sq. ft., with 76 sq. ft. of grate area. The steam generatorsare of the water-tube type, each containing 420 tubes, 2^ ins.in diameter and 11 B. W. G. thick. About 500 sq. ft. of theheating surface of each boiler represents superheating. Thereis no economizer, but a coil of tubing is placed in the path of the March 5, 1904.) gases, directly over the tubes, and the boiler feed passes throughthis coil. The waste gases pass directly into a mild steelstack (each boiler has its own stack), 44 ins. in diameterand 75 ft. high. These stacks are made up in three sections,

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