. The street railway review . ,. led to hot wells in the basement of the boiler room. There is ahot well for each engine and these arc piped to two equalizingtanks from which the feed water is drawn for the boilers. In ad-dition to the condenser connections four free exhaust pipes areprovided, one at each corner of the engine room. The engines which arc eleven in number arc of the verticalcross compound type and were built by the AllisChalmers Co.,of Milwaukee. Their cylinder dimensions arc 46 and 86 in. by 60in. and they run al 75 r. p. m. giving a piston speed of 750 ft. pe
. The street railway review . ,. led to hot wells in the basement of the boiler room. There is ahot well for each engine and these arc piped to two equalizingtanks from which the feed water is drawn for the boilers. In ad-dition to the condenser connections four free exhaust pipes areprovided, one at each corner of the engine room. The engines which arc eleven in number arc of the verticalcross compound type and were built by the AllisChalmers Co.,of Milwaukee. Their cylinder dimensions arc 46 and 86 in. by 60in. and they run al 75 r. p. m. giving a piston speed of 750 ft. perminute. They are nominally of h. p. each, but can work fora short time np to li. p. The fields of the generators aremounted on the engine shaft between the generators. The re-ceivers between the cylinders contain re-healing tubes, into whichlive is adniicied. .\ table coniiiaring the steam apparatus of. arch, located in Washington Square, at the beginning of Fifthavenue, was completed in 1S93, replacing a temporary areh of similardesign erected for the centennial celebration of the inauguration ofWashington as the first president of the United States, which tookplace at New York. April 19, 17S9. The nrcli is exquisitely executedin marble and cost $250,000, which was raised by popular subserlptiou. this station with that of the Manhattan station will be found onanother page. The generators which are of kw. nominal capacity, arecapable of standing an overload of 1-3 for several hours withoutoverheating. This makes their ultimate capacity nearly 5,000 are of the General Electric revolving field type with stationaryarmatures, running at 750 r. p. m. and generating a current volts at 25 cycles per second. They contain 40 poles of lam-inated iron, which are bolted to a steel yoke ring. The current isdistributed to rotary converter
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