. The street railway review . Uosplaines Sts. station as it frontson the latter. The second of the older cable stations is that at Milwaukee Cleaver St. and drives two Ij^-in. cables, each ft. long;one has speed of to miles per hour and extends to the corner ofWashington and JefTerson Sts. and the other with a speed of 12miles per hour out Milwaukee \\c. to ,\rmitage .\ve. This build-ing is of red brick 250 x 208 ft.; there are two simple non-condens- nected to a 25 arc liglit dynamo is provided for lighting the build-ing. There are two batteries of four boilers each, similar to
. The street railway review . Uosplaines Sts. station as it frontson the latter. The second of the older cable stations is that at Milwaukee Cleaver St. and drives two Ij^-in. cables, each ft. long;one has speed of to miles per hour and extends to the corner ofWashington and JefTerson Sts. and the other with a speed of 12miles per hour out Milwaukee \\c. to ,\rmitage .\ve. This build-ing is of red brick 250 x 208 ft.; there are two simple non-condens- nected to a 25 arc liglit dynamo is provided for lighting the build-ing. There are two batteries of four boilers each, similar to theboilers in the other cable stations mentioned; oil is used for separators are drained by Wcstinghouse steam loops. Thetraffic on the Madison St. branch of this system is still heavy, elec-tric lines not having seriously cut into it as yet. The Blue Island cable station at Blue Island Ave. and 12th built in 1893. It is of pressed brick with stone trimmings, and C)ci-. 15. iK(jo I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 657. |;n(;ink , kikkwkm. ami madison sts. iiuluik-s as part of tilt- striicuirc a six-story ollicc building. Tlicportion wlicre the niacliiiicry is located is 116 x 100 (t. In buildingthe foundations quicUsand was encountered and the excavations hadto be carried down 40 ft. below the street level. Some 800,000 bricklaid in porlland cement were used in the engine foundations. Threecables are operated from the station. On Blue Island Ave. fromI2th St. to Jefferson St., 12,400 ft.; on Blue Island Ave. from 12thSt. to 26th St., 24,600 ft.; on HalsteU St., 25,000 ft. All of thesecables were made by the Koebling company and arc I 5-16 in. in di-ameter. In the ensj;ine room are two simple AUis engines withcylinders 40 x 72 in. rated at 1,800 h. p. with steam at lOO lbs. Eachhas a 24-ft. fly-wheel weighing 50 tons. These two engines are ateither end of an i8-in. line shaft which carries the winding drumsbetween them; pinions s-ft. in diameter on the line shaft me
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