. Electric railway gazette . of the tracks of the Central Railway of New Jer-sey, excellent facilities for the receipt of coal are power equipment at first consisted of one doubleengine of 500 horse-power, and three General Electricmultipolar generators. This engine is of the Hamilton-Corliss type with cylinders measuring 21 x 42. Thereare two fly-wheels, each 18 feet in diameter and three feetacross the face. The generators are shown at the left in Fig. 1. Theyare belted directly to the engines by twenty-four-inchbelts, two generators being driven tandem from one fly-wheel, and o
. Electric railway gazette . of the tracks of the Central Railway of New Jer-sey, excellent facilities for the receipt of coal are power equipment at first consisted of one doubleengine of 500 horse-power, and three General Electricmultipolar generators. This engine is of the Hamilton-Corliss type with cylinders measuring 21 x 42. Thereare two fly-wheels, each 18 feet in diameter and three feetacross the face. The generators are shown at the left in Fig. 1. Theyare belted directly to the engines by twenty-four-inchbelts, two generators being driven tandem from one fly-wheel, and one from theother. The equipmenthas recently been in-creased by the installa-tion of a 750-hp direct-connected unit, shown inFig. 2. The engine (seeFig. 3) is of the Rey-nolds-Corliss cross-com-pound type, with extraheavy bed plates, and isof the latest model builtby the E. P. Allis Com-pany for heavy railwaywork. The generator isof the Westinghouse mul-tipolar type with its arma-ture mounted directly onthe engine shaft. The. FIG. 2—DIRECT-CONNECTED SET, FIG. 1.—VIEW OF DYNAMO ROOM. FIG 3.—REAR VIEW PF THE ENGINE, 428 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 24. switchboard shown in Fig. i, is conveniently located atabout the centre of the north side of the engine room, andis fully equipped with the usual switches, indicating in-struments, circuit-breakers, and lighting arresters ofWeston and Westinghouse make. The boiler room is located in the west end of the build-ing. The floor of the room is level with the ground, andabout 8 feet below that of the engine room. The boilerequipment consists of one battery of two Babcock &Wilcox water-tube boilers, of 350 horse-power are also three horizontal tubular boilers, which atpresent are employed as water tanks, but which are main-tained in good condition, so that in an emergency theycould be used for supplying steam. The arrangement of the steam piping system is excel- The Trolley Opinion.
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