Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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ctric motors. Piping from the com-pressed air system extends to each generator for cleaning the arma-tures, etc., the air being furnished from a VVestinghouse air pump.Oil is supplied by a gravity system, pipes nmning to all the bearingsfrom a tank placed near the roof of the station. After being usedthe oil is filtered and two pumps return it to the tank. The switchboard is of white marble and is unusually compactfor so large a station. The four panels to the left are each for agenerator. Each panel has a General Electric circuit breaker andswitches, a 2,500-amperc Weston ammeter and field rheostat con-troller, the resistance of which is under the floor. The next panelto the right receives the entire current of the station and is de-signed to carry 8.000 amperes. It has a 750-voIt voltmeter and an8,000-ampere ammeter, a General Electric wattmeter, and a Bristolrecording voltmeter. The next panel supplies current to the sta-tion. This goes tn the live cooling tower motors, the two mo-
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STRUCTURE AT ■WTH. ST.FAN MOTORS AND SWITCHBOARD. ENGINE AND GENERATOR ROOM.MAIN SWITCHBOARD. driven compressor; the motors have the General Electric automaticregulators. The Gold electric street car heaters are used on all cars. The power house is located at 40th and State Sts., on the line ofthe Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and was designed by Messrs.Sargent & Lundy, consulting engineers for the company. The building is 200 ft. Ic.ig and divided lengthwise into largerooms; the engine room is 59 ft., and the boiler rootn 48 ft. wide.The engine equipment comprises four cross compound, con-densing AUis-Corliss engines with cylinders 26 and 54 -x 48 in.; speed80 r. p. m. Each engine will develop normally 1,200 h. p., but willcarry a 66 per cent overload. The direct connected Westinghousegenerators are of 8oo-kw. capacity, giving 1,280 anipers at 625 volts,although the generators are capable of running under temporaryoverloads of 100 per cent. A Reynolds condenser receives t

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