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Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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
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cu. ft. of concrete. The foundation for thestack and seven engines contain 315,000 cu. ft. of concrete, requiring.some 12,000 barrels of ccment. Ilu number of piles under fouiida-lions in the building is 2..344. Tlu weinlit of struelinal steel is2.550.000 lb. I lu- engine room has white enamel brick to a height of 6 ft.,uliiTi I here is a heavy oak moulding; above this point the interiorwalls are coverei! with a coaling of Keens cement plaster and laidoff in blocks to iniiUite sione. The gener.il effeel is a most pleasingone. The engine room is to contain two ,36 and 70 by 60 in. cross com-pound Fulton-Corliss engines, each direct connected to a GeneralICIeclric 2,2.50-kw. railway generator and two 28 and 54 by 60 in.cross compound Knlton-Corliss engines direct connected to 40 pole,i,200-kw. three-phase General Electric alternators. All four unitsrun at 75 r. p, ni. The design .-il^o c.hIcmii.ImIciI and the pbins slir.w three .34 x t,o In. 818 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol.. XI, No. n.
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simple engines direct connected to 8oo-kw. General Electric gen-erators. These were to be removed from the old Cass Ave. station,but it is doubtful whether these engines will ever be installed in thenew station. Nov. IS, iQor.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 810 The exiters for the alternators are two 4-pole, so-kw. 125-voItG. E. generators motor driven at 400 r. p. m. The engine room is served by a 7S-ton Case crane of 64 ft. 8 in.span. The speeds are: Bridge travel, 50 to 100 ft.; trolley, 25 to50 ft.; hoist, 3 to S ft. per minute. The motors are respectively of30, 25 and 50 h. p. The boiler room has 16 boilers, rated at 400 h. p., each arrangedin batteries of two. Each boiler has a traveling chain grate madeby the Green Engineering Co.. of Chicago; these grates have aneffective surface 9 ft. 8 in. wide by 9 ft. long and are similar tothose installed in the north part of the Central Station. .\bove the boilers is a row of steel hoppers holding coal supplyfor 12 hours. Each hopper has a 2-to

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