Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ibuting power. The power-houseitself, however, had not Keen completed and the following The power hou-e is a hnck structure with engine room 67x107ft. and boiler room 42x95 ft. The two rooms are separated by aheavy hrick wall. The engine room floor is 8 ft. S in. above thelevel of the boiler room floor and below the engine room is abasement, the floor of which is 12 ft. below that of the engine room, Adjoining the boiler r n this basement floor is depressed 5 ft. 4 in. below the level of the holler room floor, forming a condenserpit wherein are located the condensers and steam and water piping.aKo the primary heaters, thereby leaving the engine 1,10111 unob-structed in this respect All parts of the building below the floor level, including the enginefoundations, are formed of concrete, made of hest Portland cement,mixed by machinery on the grounds, in the proportion of 1-3-6.The concrete was laid during the winter months, and has beenfound to give more satisfactory results than brick.
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;en<;inesiand_generatohs, Berkshire street kaii.way power hoi si of the generating apparatus and power plant will lie read withinter- Itlined in the article in the Revi power scheme include! a central generating tation at Pittsfield with a ti I v itind j.) milej from the mam station rhree phase alternatingcurrent and nan, directly to tin- transmission Inn- without theFrom the line the current pa iisformed to 380-voll alternatingcurrent, ami g from 1 In- to the mam .Hon with th i • p down I ■ .- units, •lie mam ;. gC loarl ! h< tation is on the main hue of ilie Host.,11 & Albany R. R. aboul two hiiI. from thi postoffici in Pittsfield A nearby streamfurnishe fet ■( and • len ing water. 1 ti ,11 ing Units. Mi.- generating unit comp 1 1 two 750 kw, triphase revolvingtn-1.1 \\. tinghou ■ .ill. 111.ii.ii each driven by a 1,200-h. p. hori-zontal cross compound conden ing direel connected Rice S Sargeni1.mil I.-. Hi. Providence Engineering Works, of Providence,R I The ge

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