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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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lating pumps are steamdriven, the latter being direct connected to llarrislnivg simple cn- chinery is seen from the eiigraviusj showing the exterior of the powerhouse; this view also shows the filtration plant in the liackgrouml. The output from the main generators is delivered to six 370-kvv.Bullock oil-cooled transformers. These raise the potential to 27,000volts. The connections from the transformers to the bus bars arethrough Ci. E. type H oil switches, with knife switches for isolatingthe oil switches when it becomes necessary to make repairs on them. The bus bar structure occupies the basement at the cast side ofthe building, the transformers and oil switches beins located on themain floor directly above, with the switchboard for the direct cinrciufeeders and the control panels for llie lii.nb tension switches in thegallery above the transfornurs. The bus bars are No. 00 wire, mounted on G. K. glass i.isnlators,the structure being of the st:indard type, with brick walls and con-
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CK.SKK.M. VIF.W OF ENGINE AND f.ENEK.STIJR RIlo.M FKO.M WEST ENII, SHIJWIXC; S\\ IK Uiai.Mdl IN l^.M.I.EUV. gines. One of these is sufficient to supply the condenser when oper-ated at full capacity. The great variation in the water level of thecreek, which amounts to 19 ft., made it necessary to sink a wellin the basement of the power plant and coimect it with the creek byan intake which should be under water at all limes The circulat-ing pumps take suction from this well. The iKjilcr feed is heated in a VVainright feed water heater, man-ufactured hy the Taunton Locomotive Works. This healer receivesthe exhaust from the exciter and pumping engines. The coal hand-ling apparatus was installed by the Jeffrey .Manufacturing Co.. ofColumbus, O.. and consists of a clam shell grab bucket of ij/l tonscapacity, operated by electricity and traveling upon an overheadtrack. Uy means of ibis bucket coal can be imloaded from cars ofthe grindola type and carried over to the bunker in the station ort

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