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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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ter Aves.,and was huilt l>y the I.indell Ky. in 1804. The eiiuipment originallyinstalled comprised \Vestinghoiise soo-kw, generators helled toPorter .Mien engines, and a Stirling hoilcr equipment with llawleydown draft furnaces. In kkk) and itioi lhi> si.itioii was almost com- noons the current is boosted up to i.joo or 1,400 volts in order toget a potential of 500 volts on one of the outlying lines. rile Cass Avenue station is located at Prairie Ave. and NorthMarket St. and now contains three 800-kw. generators driven l)>simple non-condensing Allis engines and one joo-kw. (j. E. gen-erator direct connected to an engine of similar make and type. Theengine last mentioned is interesting in that it has valve gear of theCorliss type and operates at 150 r. p. m., and has worked satisfac-torily ever since it was installed. The hoilcr equipment comprises16 fire tube boilers of 200 h. p. each. These are all equipped withllawley down draft furnaces. This station is interesting in that
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CENTR.\L POWER STATION pletely rebuilt, practically the only part of the equipment remainingunchanged being the Stirling boilers. A new boiler room was addedin which were erected OBrien water tube boilers equipped withGreen chain grate furnaces, and new engines and generators werealso installed. The new equipment for this station comprises four2,250-kw. and two 1,500-kw. Wcstinghouse generators direct con-nected to cross compound condensing engines built by the FultonIron Works. As at the other direct current stations of this company,the potential at which current is generated is normally 550 volts,being increased to 600 volts on the peaks of the load. When thisstation was remodeled Worthington elevated jet condensers wereinstalled and also Worthington cooling towers, the entire station nowbeing operated condensing. Three of the Porter-Allen engines originally installed in the planthave been direct connected to the generators and these are so ar-ranged that they may he used as booster

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