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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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spread an i8-in. layer of concrete, and all wall,boiler and engine foundations go clear down to this concrete bed.Fifteen feet of the engine foundations are of heavy rubble masonry,built with Portland cement and the rest of hydraulic pressed brickin Portland cement. All foundations are spread to give ample foot- Oct, is, 1900.) STr^EET RAILWAY REVIEW. 563 ing surface anil are designed to siiiiport 2 tons to the sq. ft. of base area. 1 \.a. The boiler room floor is supported on 15-in. I beams runningfrom wall to wall, upon which is laid a granitoid floor composedof Portland cement, sharp sand and granite screenings. Bi.HK RiVKR nit SiiEFiii-i.n F.i.F.cTKir Station. This is lo- dircct connected to a soo-h. p. simple condensing W. Wrightengine. One 250-kw. 5so-volt direct current General Klcctric generator,likewise compounded for 10 per cent rise in voltage at full load.This is direct connected to a 300-h. p. simple non-condensing AllisReynolds-Corliss engine, with cylinders 24 x 48 in.
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VIEWS IN SOME OF THE METROPOLITAN POWER ST.\TIOXS. cated on the Blue River about six miles east of Main St. inKansas City, Mo., and operates the interurban line to Inde-pendence. It contains two units: One 450-kw. 550-volt direct current General Electric generator,compounded for 10 per cent rise in voltage at full load. This is There are three duplex feed water pumps, one Allis jet condenserand one feed water heater. The switchboard is in the shape of the arc of an elipse and com-prises 10 panels as follows: One wattmeter panel with Thompsonand Bristol recording instruments: one 1,000-ampere generator pan-el; one 800-ampere generator panel; three 300-ainpere feeder panels; 564 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. X, No. lo. four 8oo-ampere feeder panels. These have a full complement ofinstruments, switches, circuit breakers, etc.Steam is taken at lOO lb. from five 125-h. p. fire tube boilers.The station on a recent test developed a total output of 739 elec-trical h. p. for a single hour. Eigh

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