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Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (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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ngs and shields are provided for catchingand accumulating all the drips which are thenpiped by gravitation to a tank. When a suf-ficient quantity has collected it is drawn into afilter and from this filter it is again pumpedinto the supply tank, and used again and again. The cylinders are supplied with improvedsight feed lubricators, having a lead not onlyto the steam pipe before entering the cylinderas usual, but in addition to the center of eachvalve. This allows a chance for direct lubri-cation should the valve require it. Each valveis also supplied with a cylinder oil pump thatcan be used, should an accident befall thesight feed lubricator. OPERATION. The following report taken from the log book at thisstation for ten days may be of interest. It should be bornein mind however, that the plant is yet in an unfinishedcondition, so that later a greater degree of economy willprobably be shown. Wattmeter 302,288,000 k. w. h. Coal 1,089,900 lbs. August, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 459
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460 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol.. XII. No. 8. Water , 1,273,825 gals. Engine oil ■ 109 Cylinder oil 97 Waste, colored 37 lbs. Waste, white 29 The station was built from plans and specificationsprepared by F. S. Pearson. JERSEY CITY POWER STATION. The second power station of the company is in JerseyCity near the foot of Montgomery Street hill. It is along brick building with gable roof, and has been extendeda number of times since it was put in operation in 1892.Water for condensing purposes is secured at high tide fromthe meadows at the foot of the hill, and retained until thenext high tide in a reservoir excavated for the purpose. The engine equipment consists of three Allis cross-compound engines, one of 750 h. p. and two of 500 h. p.each, directly connected to a Westinghouse generator, and The total car mileage per month for the ten monthsending last May is as follows: Aug. 1,055,349. Sept. 1,067,660. Oct. 981,610. Nov. 980,000. Dec. 972,000. Tan. Feb. M?r. Apr. May. 967,490. 92

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  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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