. The street railway review . - 26-/ ■-.^1 ^ ^^=? /3y/ OF SUB-ST.\TION. suppiy, and on the banks of the Miami river, which supplies waterfor the boilers and condensers. Water is taken from the river andstored in a large cistern, from which it is pumped into a tank whichsupplies the boiler room by gravity. This power plant is a brick and steel structure, 120 .\ 125 ft., witha dividing wall between the engine and boiler rooms. The engine room equipment consists of two heavy duty direct. . NO. AMELIA, O. connected condensing cross compound Buckeye engines, 22 and40
. The street railway review . - 26-/ ■-.^1 ^ ^^=? /3y/ OF SUB-ST.\TION. suppiy, and on the banks of the Miami river, which supplies waterfor the boilers and condensers. Water is taken from the river andstored in a large cistern, from which it is pumped into a tank whichsupplies the boiler room by gravity. This power plant is a brick and steel structure, 120 .\ 125 ft., witha dividing wall between the engine and boiler rooms. The engine room equipment consists of two heavy duty direct. . NO. AMELIA, O. connected condensing cross compound Buckeye engines, 22 and40 x 36 in. having a rated capacity of 800 h. p., with an economicalrange of from 600 to 1,080 h. p. These engines are direct connectedto two 500-kw. 10,000-volt Westinghouse alternating current gener-ators, of the revolving field type. Two high speed direct connectedBuckeye engines 754 x 12 in. stroke are direct connected to two ihree-phasc generator panels, and one high tension tliree-phasefeeder panel. In this power station is located sub-station equipment No. 4, con-sisting of one 400-kw. three-phase rotary, one three-panel sub-station switchboard, and three 150-kw. self-cooling oil boiler room equipment consists of four horizontal waier tubeboilers, each containing 3,209 sq. ft. of heating surface, and ratedat 320 h^ p. each, made by the Aultman & TaylorMachinery Co., one Cochrane 2,000 h. p. feed waterheater and purifier, two McGowan boiler feed pumps,each of a .sufficien
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