. The Street railway journal . k extends to a height of50 ft. from the foundation. ENGINES There are two tandemcompound Corliss type en-gines, built by the C. & Company. The cyl-inders are 22-in. and 42-in. stroke. They op-erate at 107 r. p. m. and arerated at 900-hp each. Steamis taken from beneath thefloor, and in addition to thethrottle valve, a butterflyvalve is placed in the steamline, operated by an auto-matic tripping device fromthe governor, which posi-tively shuts off the steamwhere the speed increasesbeyond a prearranged engine is direct con-nected to a 60
. The Street railway journal . k extends to a height of50 ft. from the foundation. ENGINES There are two tandemcompound Corliss type en-gines, built by the C. & Company. The cyl-inders are 22-in. and 42-in. stroke. They op-erate at 107 r. p. m. and arerated at 900-hp each. Steamis taken from beneath thefloor, and in addition to thethrottle valve, a butterflyvalve is placed in the steamline, operated by an auto-matic tripping device fromthe governor, which posi-tively shuts off the steamwhere the speed increasesbeyond a prearranged engine is direct con-nected to a 600-kw GeneralElectric generator placedbetween the bearings, and a35-kw exciter is on the ex-tended shaft overhangingthe outer bearing. On ac-count of the design of thegenerators, no fly-wheelsare used, the revolving fieldshaving the necessary mo-mentum to permit paralleloperation of the units. Thecylinders are mounted onheavy cast-iron foundationplates and are lubricated bymeans of multiple force-feed oil pumps. Machine oil. VIEW OF ENGINE ROOM IN THE STRYKER POWER HOUSE OF THE TOLEDO & INDIANA RAILWAY October 21, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 767 is supplied from a gravity oiling system inconnection with a Cross filter and pump inthe basement. The main and outer bearingsare water jacketed. Besides the main units,there is installed an 8-in. x 6-in., 400 r. p. m.,vertical marine type engine for an auxiliaryexciting unit. In the pit formed in the space between theengine foundations are two surface con-densers, each containing 2300 sq. ft. of cool-ing surface. The shells are cylindrical andare made of cast iron in two sections. Thetube heads are of composition metal, and thetubes are 24-in. seamless brass, tinned insideand out. The condenser shells are mountedover 10 x 18 x 18 single air pumps, brassfitted, while the circulating water is suppliedby two 12 x 22 x 15 vertical single typedouble-acting pumps. In the condenser pitis also located a steel hot well and two12 x 8 x 12 sing
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