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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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of the power plant.Mr. White has charge of tlio improvements in this department. Steam Heating. In the fall of 1903 a steam lieatiiig system was installed whicli issupplied by the exhaust from the power station. The pipes forma net work under the streets throughout the business section andembrace all four sides of each block in the most important locality.The farthest point reached is seven blocks from the station. Therearc in all 11,068 ft. of mains. The main which leads from thepower station is of wrought iron, as are all the mains of the system.It is 16 in. in diameter at the station and 6 in. at the remotestpoint. The iron pipe is wrapped in asbestos and enclosed in a2-in. tin lined wooden jacket with a 2-iu. dead air space betweenthe jacket and the pipe. The whole thing is then enclosed in tarpaper and placed not less than 5 ft. in the ground. From thismain service pipes arc tapped and connection made with the radi-ators of the consumers. After the steam passes through the radi-
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i.NiKUK Jit \n:\\ OK fiiWKK .ST.\l;i J.N 57,704 lamps (incandescent).1,696 h. p. in motors. Bessemer Plant. For supplying lighting current for the city of Bessemer, 13 milesremoved from Birmingham, an independent plant is operated. Thisgenerating station will soon be supplanted by the sub-station atBrighton, fed from the Birmingham power house, a description ofwhich is gi%en above. The equipment of the present plant consists of two 120-kw , 2.300-volt, 60-cycle single phase G. E. generators belt driven from coun-ter shafting by one .300-h. p. 80 r. p. m. corliss engine and one130-h. p. high speed Ball engine. Steam for these engines is sup-plied by two iso-h. p. horizontal return tubular boilers. The output capacity is 240 kw., 29 nniiiici;ial arcs, and 71 com-mercial arcs, of 7!^ ampere G. E. series lamps, and 3,000 incan-descent lights arc served by this plant. As stated above, all thiswill be taken care of by the Birmingham plant at an early date. ators it goes into a cooling coil,

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