The Street railway journal (1902) (14574891458)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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flanges are welded on and corrugated coppergaskets are used throughout. The valves will be furnishedby the Chapman Valve Manufacturing Company, of IndianOrchard, Mass. Before being erected each section of pipingwill be tested under 500 lbs. hydraulic pressure. TheIiolly gravity return system and steam loop will be in-stalled to return condensed steam to the boilers. The freeexhaust pipes are of the spiral riveted type. The engine room will contain four direct-connectedunits, three of which are new and the fourth now in opera-tion in the Eddy Street station. This will be removed to STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 290 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 9. the new power house after it has been sufficiently com- lias cylinders 28 ins. and 54 ins., with stroke of 48 ins. Thepleted to carry the load. The engines for the generators engines will be run condensing, Blake condensers havinghave been constructed by the Filer & Stowell Company, been ordered. These engines are so arranged as to go
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Milwaukee, Wis., and are of the horizontal compound directly opposite each battery of boilers, and the steamtype. The three new engines have cylinders 32 ins. piping and condenser piping connections are of the short-and 64 ins., with stroke of 54 ins. The other engine est possible length. The three new generators will be of March i, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 291 1500 kw capacity, and together with the one which it isproposed to move from the old to the new house, whichis of 1250 kw capacity, make the full complement for thenew house. These generators are all constructed by theGeneral Electric Company, of Schenectady, N. Y., whichwill also provide the new switchboard, etc. It is proposed to erect and put in operation under tem-porary housing a portion of this plant previous to the com-pletion of the building structure. Nearly all of the ma- Meeting: of the Executive Committee of the A. S. R. A. The executive committee of the American Street Rail-way Association held its first meet