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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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r Novem-ber of that year. The Transit company now has two r( tary converter substations.One of these, known as the Delmar substation, is located at Delmarand DeBaliviere Aves. This station uses the entire alternating cur-rent output of the Northern power station, which is some six milesilislaut. The current is transmitted at 6,600 volts over two 3-phaseoverhead lines, each constructed of three No. 0000 copper wires. Atthe Delmar station are installed four 6ao-kw. G. E. rotary con-verters with the necessary step-down transformers. There has alsobeen placed here one i,ooo-kw. rotary converter for use temporarilyduring the Fair. Current for this la.st machine is supplied fromthe Tenth and St. Charles Sts. station of the Union Electric Light& Power Co. The Delmar station is near the Fair Grounds and hasto supply the feeders for the western portion of all the Transitcompany Worlds Fair lines on the north side of the grounds. The Central substation is at 1711 Locust St., which is in the
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ST. LOlIS TUNSIT CO. is at this station one 600-kw. Western Electric booster driven bytwin Allis engines. This booster is of unusually large capacity,ifioo amperes at 200 volts. For boilers, there are two soo-h.p. Heine, four 250-h.p. Babcock& Wilcox, two 250-h.p. (JBrien water tube aiul four 250-h.p. Heineixjilers, all hand fired, and four 250-li.p. Heine boilers with Hawleydown draft furnaces. The Northern station is at Broadway and Salisbury St., and hereare generated both direct and alternating current. The direct cur-rent equipment consists of two 2,2S0-kw. G. E. generators directconnected to 3(1 and 70 by Oo-in. cross-compound, Fulton Iron Worksengines, operated at 75 r. p. m. The alternating current units arctwo 1,200-kw., 6,600-volt, 25 cycle, 3-phasc G. F. machines, eachdirect connected to a 28 and 56 by Oo-in. cross compound condensingFulton Iron Works engine, operated at 7S r. p. m. In the boilerpjimi arc sixteen 4or> h p. OBrien water tube boilers equipped withGreen

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