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Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
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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m, the di- June 15, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. .V)7 mensions of which arc 60 x 80 ft., is ilhistratcd in Vif^. 11.It contains a lo-lon travcHng crane, vvorivcd hy iiaiui power.The equipment of tlie engine room consists of tliree Mc-Intosli & Seymour engines f)f the conipoiuul condensingtype, which arc directly connected to General Electric nud-tipolar generators. Two of these engines have cylindermeasurements of 22 and 42 x 42 in., and run at a spee<l of90 r. p. m. Ihese engines have a rated capacity of 750 li. p. and then ctjme three generator panels. In the center is thestation panel with a Weston ammeter and Tiiomson record-ing watt.oieter, which measure the total station current. Tothe right 0: this are six feeder panels, and on the end ofthe hoard is an emergency panel. Ihe latter is changeablewith cither of the feeder panels, and has a water rheostat inscries with it, so that in case of a short circuit the feeder onwhich it occurs may be thrown onto the emergency panel
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Fit;. .^-CARPENTER SHOP. FIG. 5-MACHINE SHOP. FIG. 7—MOTOR WINDING ROOM. and each is connected to a 500-k. w. lO-pole generator. Thethird engine measures 26 and 50 x 48 in., makes 90 r. p. m.,and is rated at 1200 h. p. This engine is connected to an800-k. w. i2-pole generator. The pressure at the stationis 600 volts. The switchboard is constructed of slate upon an ironframe, and is of the standard General Electric pattern. Thefirst panel on the left hand end of the board is a negativepanel, which is a conmion return for all the circuits. Thenext panel controls the lighting circuits for the building. FIG. 4-PAINT SHOP. FIG. 6—MACHINE SHOP. FIG. 8-CAR PITS. and the resistence varied by raising or lowering an ironplunger into the water so that the short circuit, if not tooheavy, may be burned out. The engine room also contains three Worthington jetcondensers, which, on account of there being no water inthe neighborhood, are suppHed from a Worthington coolingtower having a capacity of

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