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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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y on the north side contains bus bar and switchcompartments and the high tension cable ducts. On the east galleryarc rooms for the operating forces. On the south gallery arc themain exhaust pipes, and space for future bus bar compartments isleft on either side in the west half. At the main engine room floorlevel the three engines occupy the east half of the room. Theyare 37 ft. on centers, which spacing is the unit throughout thebuilding, for Ixith columns and machinery. On the north side of the engines arc the oil switches; on the east,the chief engineers and electricians offices; on the south are theexciters, transformers, and exciter and battery switchboards. Onthe main floor wings in the west half of the engine room arc spacesfor the future oil switches for turbine units. The engine room has another gallery running around it, abovethe main floor. The north portion of this gallery is occupied bythe main steam headers, valves and branch connections, and in the ■.ilTli»Tif>ii6^
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