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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5 it. wide inside the walls and extends the entire length of thebuilding and is divided by brick walls into 18 compartments in thebottom of each of which are two steel hoppers. Each of the 18bunkers has a capacity of 3,771 cu. ft., and 1- designed to hold tootons 1 if coal. A well defined plan lut~ been followed in the construction ofboth the power station and the sub-stations. This is the transmis-sion of all power, both steam and electrical, in one direction acrosstin whili all tin- elements in a longitudinal direction arein the nature of equalizers. Thus, will be seen in the power house,first, a row of coal bunkers extending the length of the building he run over the hunkers and the contents dumped. In the base-ment, under the coal bunkers and boiler room, there are tracks of _n Hi rails laid to - It. OUtsil et which are run small cars ol about 1 ton capacity for transferring coal to the boiler bunkers,I hi space between these track rail> is filleil with concrete so thai
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CROSS SECTION 01 POWER HOISE. HATAVIA. rallel to these are thi ; hen comes the steam piping fur the entire plant -•■ partition wall between the mil engine r ns. The next row of machinery consists of pumps ami auxiliary apparatus followed by the engines, then thedynamos ami lastly the transformers, oil switches ami cables which i- mi chance for ilni in accumulate and a better footing isafforded fur the men handling coal. Two transverse tracks at thecenter of the building lead to two elevator: located in front of thestack on which the loaded car^ are lifted to a longitudinal trackrunning above tin boilers. In front of and over each boiler is a Aug .v. Kjo2.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 44) steel bunker holding from 5 to 7 hours suppl) of coal, the coal_ fed down through chines to the furnaces.A track in the basement under the boilers permits the small carsto be loaded with ashes, and they are then run to the elevators andlifted to the level of the bottom chords of the roof trusses and ru

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