Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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ck structure,are shown on the accompanying plan. I lie foundation walls arcof concrete, resting on piles. All engine and boiler foundations,built also of concrete, are on piles. Steel roof trusses carry thegravel roof and the coal bunkers above the boilers. The greaterportion of the current generated at this station is used in the city 306 STRFF.T RAILWAY RF.VIF.W. (Vol. XIV. N(i. 5. railway service of East St. Louis, with a center of distribution alittle more than :i mile distant. Tlie very losv cost of coal and the absence of a cheap watersupply made the use of simple non-condensing engines necessary.The coal used is nut, pea and slack, which is handled from themines in the companys Imttom-dump cars, built by the .SmericanCar & Foundry Co. These discharge their contents into a steelhopper over the conveyor. This conveyor is of the McCasIin type,made by John A. Mead & Co., and is of the overlapping buckettype, with iS x-M-iii buckets, deliverinii tlie iimI In vii-d liiiiikcrs
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LOWIiH S\\ ITc-lir.i lAUIi. .\l.\l.\ STATldX holding two car-loads each, over the boilers. Tlic ash is takenfrom the pits beneath the boilers by the same conveyor, and emptiedinto a hopper overhead, from which it is discharged into the coalcars by gravity. The boiler room contains live i,ooo-b. p. batteries of Heine water-tube boilers. In order to obtain enough grate surface, owing tothe grade of coal used, it was necessary to set two 2so-h. p. boilersside by side to form each half of the battery, in.stead of using thesingle 500-h. p. units. Demand for large grate surface promptedthe Green Engineering Co. to build for this plant thefirst traveling link grates 12 ft. in width ever con-structed. Tlie engine room, which is served by a 35-lon cranebuilt by the Cleveland Crane & Car Co., containsfive engines direct connected to their generators,three motor generator sets, one rotary converter, be-sides two steam driven and one motor driven ex-citers. The direct current at 550 volts, su

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