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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eries of two each of the Gill type, 1,500-horse-power; two of two each. Root type, 1,500-horse-power;two of four each, Heine make, 3,750-horse-power; twoof two each. National, 1,500-horse-power; five batteriescomprising nine Campbell & Zell, aggregating 3,750- Ball, of Erie, Cross compound of 480-horse-power;Armington & Sims, simple, 400; General Electric, tripleexpansion, 1,000; Phoenix, triple expansion, 500, tandemcompound and a simple, each of 250; Woodbury, tandemcompound, 600 and one 375; Ida, tandem compound, 2 25simple, 200; Ball & Wood, Cross compound, 200, twosimple of 150 each, and tandem compound of 150-horse-power; Westinghouse, four compound, 1,000 each;Buckeye, triple expansion, 1,000; Atlas, compound, 1,000,Mclntosh-Seymour, double tandem compound of 1,000,horse-power. Two Westinghouse compound follow of1,000 each; one Buckeye cross-compound. 300, two sim-ple, 125-horse-power each, a simple, 190 and a tandemcompound, 150; one Russell, double tandem compound
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MACHINEKV ilALL— IHfc. LAbl IN ItXTtKlOK COMILEXIUN. horse-power; five of two Babcock & Wilcox, 3,000-horse-power; two of two each, Sterling boilers, 1,600-horse-power. All boilers will be fired with crude petroleumfrom the Standard Oil Companys tanks on the ground.The main header extends the length of the house and isthirty-six inches in diameter. THE ENGINE E.XIIIBIT will be also the greatest ever known, and will call for onequadruple expansion, ten triple expansion, thirty com-pound and thirteen simple engines. Twenty-five thou-sand horse-power will be required as follows: 13,000for incandescent work; 4,200 for power generators formotor work; 4,600 for arc lighting, and from 3,000 to5,000 for line shafting in Machinerj- Hall. They are tobe arranged in blocks as follows: K. P. Allis & Companj will put in the quadruple expan-sion of 2,000-horse-power; Eraser & Chalmers will makethe double triple expansion 1,000-horse-power machine; 500; Lane & Bodley, cross-compound

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