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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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is divided into half-mile sections, a cast iron section box contnininK feeder switches,telephone and lightning arresters being placed at each division.The feeders are placed underground and are about 625,000 c. m.section. The power station is silualeil a half mile from the northern orSpringburn terminus of the line. The power house is a brick build-ing, one of the end walls being only temporary, and sheathed withcorrugated iron so that extension can be added at any time. A;)lan and section of the station is shown in Fig. 7. The boiler roomis ^.■j by 46 ft. and contains two 2S0-h. p. Babcock & Wilcox waterlube boilers (Fig. 8). They have a heating surface of 2,530 sq. ft.and a grate area of 51 sfj. ft. All the steam piping is in duplicateand is carried under the engine room floor. A smoke-stack 100 ft.high has been built, and is of ample capacity for the present equip-ment and any additions to be made in the near future. The twosteam feed pumps are (he horizontal rhiplcx type. ^
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FIG. S-BOILER ROOM.FIG. 10—SWITCHBOARD. FIG. 9—EXGIXE ROOM.FIG. U-DOUBLE DECK CAR. Ornamental iron poles, 31 ft. long and planted 6 ft. 6 in. deep, arespaced at intervals of 120 ft. They are of extra heavy mild steelpipe, divided into three sections. A rake of 8 in. is allowed for thestrain on the span wires. At certain points along the route the sidepoles are displaced by ornamental rosettes (Fig. 6), attached byfour bolts, but insulated from the buildings. The trolley wire is double, and consists of No. 00 B. & S. gage,with an ultimate tensile strength of 6,000 lbs. and a conductivity of98 per cent. The trolley ears arc 18 in. long and are soldered. The The engine room (Fig. 9) is 36 ft. by 61 ft. and contains threelarge units. Mcintosh & Seymour horizontal compound enginesare direct connected to Westinghouse generators and develop 300h. p. at 200 r. p. m. The high pressure cylinder is 11 in. in diam-eter, the low pressure 22 in. and the stroke is 2 it. A fly-wheel gov-e

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