. The Street railway journal . the offices andrepair shops. The repair shop is constructed with a brickfloor and iron doors which make it practically power for operating the machinery in the repair shopis supplied by a ten horse power Eddy motor, and themachines embrace the usual equipment of iron workingtools, together with a hydraulic wheel press. The power station is located at the corner of DaviesAvenue and Broadway, and is a brick building of pleasing 446 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 7. design. The engine room is 150 X 58 ft. and forty-fivefeet in height, with a
. The Street railway journal . the offices andrepair shops. The repair shop is constructed with a brickfloor and iron doors which make it practically power for operating the machinery in the repair shopis supplied by a ten horse power Eddy motor, and themachines embrace the usual equipment of iron workingtools, together with a hydraulic wheel press. The power station is located at the corner of DaviesAvenue and Broadway, and is a brick building of pleasing 446 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 7. design. The engine room is 150 X 58 ft. and forty-fivefeet in height, with a truss roof support. The boilerroom is about the same dimensions. The boiler equip-ment consists of three Hazelton tripod boilers of 500 h. , with auxiliary equipment of Worthington pumps andBerryman heaters. The boiler sare provided with the Re-liance water gauge whistle, of Cleveland, which soundswith a variation in the height of water of ten inches eitherway. Alabama slack coal is at present employed for fuel, LJ r n 1. FIG 7 —SECTION OF TRACK SHOWING TMEMPHIS, TENN. CONSTRUCTION — which costs, delivered, $ per ton, and it requiresan average of twenty-five tons per day to operate thesixty cars. The feedwater is derived from two artesianwells, 500 ft. in depth, is comparatively pure, and formsno scale, but pits the iron with which it comes in contactto a considerable extent. The power equipment consists of five Ideal enginesof 250 h. p. each, making 230 revolutions. These areplaced in a line to one side of the room, and are eachbelted direct to a 200 k. w. Edisongenerator, the shaft centers beingfrom thirty to thirty-five feet slate switchboard is provided,on which Westinghouse instru-ments are employed. In connec-tion with the circuit breakers, theelectrician and engineer of thestation have devised an alarm sig-nal, which consists of a pair of Vshaped copper springs placed justbeneath the handle of the circuitbreaker, so that when this falls thehandle ma
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